
Bringing together brewmasters like you:
The developers and automation experts that make technology go.
Bringing together brewmasters like you:
The developers and automation experts that make technology go.Blast off to Jupyter with the NetApp Data Science Toolkit (featuring BeeGFS)
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...
Installing Astra Trident on Red Hat OpenShift – How to solve the Docker ‘toomanyrequests’ issue!
On November 20, 2020 Docker modified their policy by introducing pull rate limits for anonymous and free tier accounts. With this change in policy , the container image pull requests have been limited to 100 for anonymous users and 200 for free tier users every 6...
Monitor all of your ONTAP clusters with Harvest (easy mode)
This method is now depreciated. Please see https://netapp.io/2021/08/31/harvest2-version-21-08-release/ for current instructions. Harvest2 is out now and to help celebrate we have a super easy way for you to set it up. While you can still setup your own...
Announcing the release of Harvest2.
The Harvest team is excited to announce the release of Harvest2 21.05. With this release the core of Harvest has been completely rewritten in Go. Harvest2 is a replacement for the older versions of Harvest 1.6 and below. If you're using one of the Harvest 2.x release...
Trident 21.04 – Fully Vaccinated
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...
Taking advantage of shared lookups – Advanced Topic
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...
Tackling diverse workloads with BeeGFS in Kubernetes
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....
Separating tasks in playbooks using tags
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...
Trident support for OCP 3.11 is ending soon – Plan your OCP upgrades today!
As Kubernetes continues to grow at light speed, one thing is sure: there is always going to be a new release around the corner that customers need to evaluate. Whether it be a new cluster or one that is already handling production workloads, deploying a new version of...