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 David Blackwell | Jan 9, 2019 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, Jenkins, ONTAP
Sites trying to move into a DevOps model often want to implement a Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Deployment (CD) process. This can be challenging without any frames of reference. For our Ansible development we use such a process and want to share that with...
by David Blackwell | Dec 11, 2018 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, ONTAP, Playbooks
One of the things about Ansible that makes it so useful, is its ability to gather information about a system that can then be used in the tasks you run. Because of how the NetApp modules work, this feature isn’t core to them. However, for ONTAP there is the...
by Bala RameshBabu | Nov 7, 2018 | Cinder, ONTAP, OpenStack, SolidFire
Welcome to the final part in this three-part series on Cinder volume migration. So far, we have explored the basics of migrating volumes and the migration of a volume between backends that reside on the same cluster. In this post, we extend the concept of moving...
by Bala RameshBabu | Nov 7, 2018 | Cinder, Migration, ONTAP, OpenStack, SolidFire
In part two of this series, we will look at an example scenario, where a volume is migrated between backends that lie on the same cluster. In case you haven’t been through part 1 already, you should definitely do so and obtain a general overview of Cinder volume...
by David Blackwell | Oct 12, 2018 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, ONTAP, Playbooks
Automation and configuration management are indispensable to an efficient DevOps driven environment. NetApp supports Ansible modules for ONTAP and Element software. So, let’s get right to it and see how all this worksby building a complete workflow while adding in...
