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Documentation in the Collection Age
Normally docs.ansible.com is where you would go to get all the documentation for the modules you are using. Currently this information is not updated from collections. As a result it is often out of date. Red Hat has said they are making changes so that the URL...
A Primer on Prometheus and Trident – Exposing Metrics with Trident 20.01
In case you hadn’t noticed, the 20.01 release delivered support for Prometheus metrics. Trident now exposes a host of metrics that can be queried with Prometheus and used to obtain greater insight into the operations that Trident handles. This blog walks you through...
Virtual Storage Pools for ONTAP Backends
As part of our first major release of 2020, the Trident team has introduced a host of new features. This includes Virtual Storage Pools support for ONTAP backends, enhancing Trident’s ability to define StorageClasses to be backend-agnostic and employ key-value pairs...
Trident 20.01 – New Year, New Features and More
It has been a lightning-quick beginning to the new year. As we still wonder where January went (can you believe a month has gone by so quickly?!), the Trident team is pleased to announce our first release for this calendar year. The 20.01 release introduces support...
What You Need To Know Before Upgrading Your Kubernetes Cluster – Trident 20.01+, K8s 1.17+ & Volume Snapshots
Important: When should I take action? Note: This blog details items to consider when: upgrading Trident from 19.07.x or 19.10.x to 20.01.x and above. upgrading Kubernetes to 1.17 and above. Do you have alpha snapshots present? Read this blog in its entirety if alpha...
Working with AWX Tower – Adding a Project and a first Template.
This is the third installment in my series on ‘Working with AWX Tower’. I have already covered installing AWX Tower and setting up credentials for working with an ONTAP cluster previously. Now I am going to show you how to add a Project and the first Template from...
Trident’s Year In Review – CSI, CRDs And A Lot More
As everyone gets back to their daily grind and plan to keep up with their resolutions for 2020 (that’s always fun), 2019 has been an exciting and eventful year. It has been a year to remember for Trident as we continue to innovate with a goal of making storage...
Preparing Tower for Use by Creating a Credential Type and Credential
In a previous post I talked about how to install and run AWX Tower in a Docker stack. In this post I will continue the Tower setup by creating both the Credential Type for ONTAP and a Credential for a Cluster. Let’s start with creating a Credential Type. Log in to...