by Jacob Andathethu | Apr 16, 2019 | Containers, Docker, Docker Enterprise Edition, Kubernetes, UCP
Every day, containerization is becoming a more integral part of IT planning and strategy. The container platform you choose should be able to manage various workloads. Docker Enterprise 2.1 Universal Control Plane (UCP) is one enterprise container platform providing...
by Diane Patton | Mar 26, 2019 | Containers, DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, ONTAP, Trident
Kubernetes makes managing applications very easy and flexible. Pods can be deployed anywhere, on your local PC for testing, on-prem or in the cloud at anytime. Kubernetes can guarantee a certain number of pods are deployed and running at any given time, and may even...
by Jacob Andathethu | Mar 12, 2019 | Containers, ONTAP, OpenShift, Trident
The etcd database is crucial to NetApp’s Trident storage orchestrator. It stores all backends, storage classes, and volume information used by Trident. This information is necessary to create Persistent Volumes and attach to the backend storage. But what if the data...
by Diane Patton | Feb 14, 2019 | Containers
We all know and love Trident. It makes provisioning volumes for containers a snap. After a simple Trident setup in a Kubernetes environment, a developer only needs to create a persistent volume claim and call it from their deployment/application. Trident does the rest...
by Mauricio Sánchez | Jan 15, 2019 | Containers, Kubernetes
NetApp’s StorageGRID object store is very easy to use, but it can be challenging to get all of the right infrastructure together to deploy it, especially if you just want to try it out. But under the covers it’s built and deployed as container images, and recent...
by Jacob Andathethu | Dec 19, 2018 | Containers, Kubernetes, Trident
To mitigate risks, many organizations today implement strict security policies. Those policies may limit direct internet access, blocking connections to public software repositories like container image registries. This can make it challenging to install software that...
