In our version 1.1.0 introductory post, we described how the new per Storage Class ownership and permissions configuration feature works in the BeeGFS CSI driver. While this feature is certainly useful on its own, one of its primary motivations was enabling BeeGFS...
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,...
The initial release of the BeeGFS CSI driver included everything necessary to get started using BeeGFS in Kubernetes, but it left room for improvement in a couple of key areas. The 1.1.0 version (available now) has some important enhancements: A robust set of...
Starting in v1.2.1 the NetApp Data Science Toolkit (DSTK) for Kubernetes officially supports BeeGFS. While some parallel file systems get a bad reputation for being overly complicated to manage, BeeGFS was designed to deliver a simpler experience without compromising...
Trident v21.04 is GA today. Here’s the breakdown of all the features and improvements available with the latest release: Create and manage Trident backends with kubectl You can now manage Trident backends directly through the Kubernetes interface using...
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....
