Automate and Orchestrate Storage
in a Container World.
Trident is a dynamic storage orchestrator that simplifies the consumption of persistent volumes (PV) in Kubernetes. Manage storage resource across multiple NetApp platforms.
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Standard & Extensible
Kubernetes and REST interface(s) for consuming storage resources
Storage Support
All major NetApp storage platforms are supported:
ONTAP, Element/HCI, SANtricity/E-Series
Easy Deployment
Deploy as a standalone to a host, as a container, or as a Kubernetes pod
Fully
Supported
Trident is supported under existing NetApp maintenance agreement
Open
Source
Trident is an open source project maintained and supported by NetApp
Simplify the Consumption of Persistent Volumes (PV) in Kubernetes
Persistent storage for stateful applications is a major inhibitor in the broad adoption of containers for the enterprise. NetApp was the first to offer a robust, open source solution to address this gap, and has since increased its investment and participation in the community and its partner ecosystem to shape the way containers approach data management.
Container technology is an important piece of NetApp’s Data Fabric vision, and we want to help our customers get the most out of their NetApp investment; simplifying the deployment of containers throughout the enterprise while protecting and managing data, wherever, whenever — across the fabric.
Trident is a dynamic storage orchestrator that provides the ability to manage storage resources across all major NetApp storage platforms. It natively integrates with Kubernetes in order to dynamically provision persistent volume requests on demand, at the time of the request. Additionally, Trident has a REST interface which can be used by any application to create and manage storage across the configured resources. Trident is also fully supported by NetApp.
Features:
- Kubernetes and REST interface(s) for consuming storage resources
- Compatible with:
– ONTAP
– Element and HCI
– E-Series, and soon to offer support for NetApp Cloud Volumes - Create and provision against meta-classes of storage with common characteristics, providing abstracted pools of storage to the consumer
- Deploy as a standalone application to a physical/virtual host, as a container, or as a Kubernetes pod
Backup & Restore Trident etcd using etcdctl with ONTAP
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...
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Trident Adds Cloud Volumes Service for AWS to its Repertoire
We all know and love Trident. It makes provisioning volumes for containers a snap. After a simple Trident setup in a Kubernetes environment, a developer only needs to create a persistent volume claim and call it from their deployment/application. Trident does the rest...
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Deploying StorageGRID in a Kubernetes Cluster
NetApp’s StorageGRID object store is very easy to use, but it can be challenging to get all of the right infrastructure together to deploy it, especially if you just want to try it out. But under the covers it’s built and deployed as container images, and recent...
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Installing Trident for Kubernetes from a Private Registry
To mitigate risks, many organizations today implement strict security policies. Those policies may limit direct internet access, blocking connections to public software repositories like container image registries. This can make it challenging to install software that...
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Introducing Trident v18.10
How time flies! The Trident team has had a busy summer cooking up some great content for you. And today we’re happy to present our latest release: 18.10. We bet you can’t wait to find out what’s inside, so let’s get right into it! Volume Resizing in Kubernetes As one...
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Demo Videos for Common Trident Installation and Configuration Environments
Hello and welcome! You are at the right place to get started with Trident. Trident is a simple, yet powerful dynamic provisioner that integrates with Kubernetes Persistent Volume framework and provides a unified interface for storage provisioning from NetApp ONTAP,...
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ONTAP AI and NetApp Trident: Streamlining and simplifying AI workloads
I listened to a lot of Nirvana as a teenager, usually at full volume. “Nevermind” was pretty much on repeat for a time there, and my mom often worried that I’d lose my hearing. One of the things I loved about their music was the energy, but also how raw and simple it...
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Trident 18.07: Summer Heat and Awesome Features
Well, well, well. It seems like it was just yesterday that we were launching 18.04, but it’s been three very quick months, Summer is in full swing, and 18.07 is here! The heat and humidity outside means that we’ve been hiding in the air conditioning, toiling over a...
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NetApp, Trident, and the CSI (oh my!)
We’re excited to announce Trident integration with a new orchestrator: the Container Storage Interface (or CSI)! This is in addition to Trident’s native Kubernetes and Docker integrations. Of course, the CSI is not really an orchestrator, making this integration a bit...
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