Trident is NetApp’s open-source storage orchestrator for containerized workloads (Docker and Kubernetes distributions), encompassing support for a range of NetApp storage services and platforms on-premises and in the cloud. Today this includes: ONTAP systems,...
If you haven’t been made aware, playbooks are now being published to https://www.github.com/netapp-automation/ansible for anyone to use. Most of the playbooks being posted are what I call lookups. Lookups use the na_ontap_info module to pull information about one or...
The BeeGFS CSI Driver enables data scientists to build Kubernetes AI pipelines capable of provisioning and consuming BeeGFS file system storage. But applications in different pipeline steps often use different IO patterns and require different storage characteristics....
Sometimes it is useful to create a single playbook or role that does multiple steps, but not steps you want to run every time. You can use ‘tags’ to only include or exclude certain tasks in a playbook. To look at this concept I will use a playbook for creating...
One of the top requirements for today’s IT industry is automation with industry-standard techniques. NetApp is one of the first companies to create its own proprietary APIs (called Zephyr APIs or ONTAPI). NetApp created client libraries so that users could consume...
Authors: Phil Newman, Rahul Sharma, and Patrick Heinen Reference: https://objectivefs.com/howto/how-to-use-ofs-with-on-premise-object-store ObjectiveFS is a distributed POSIX file system that leverages S3 such as StorageGRID for durable cloud storage. In this blog we...
