Trident 18.01 was recently released, and it marks a significant milestone in NetApp’s integration with the containers ecosystem: the merging of the NetApp Docker Volume Plugin (nDVP) with Trident! To better understand why we merged the two projects, check out the announcement blog post. In this one we’re going to focus on what this means for … Read more
Happy (belated) New Year, and welcome to 2018, Pub readers! Over the last few months, despite the holidays, our engineers toiled at their keyboards to bring some of the most exciting things ever to Trident. We are very proud to announce that 18.01 is available now! The elephant in the room: NetApp Docker Volume Plugin … Read more
Ever tried to run the NetApp docker volume plugin (nDVP) with Docker Swarm? It’s fairly easy. But what if you want to do this on AWS and use ONTAP Cloud as storage? Let’s have a look. Docker on AWS First, what are the options to run Swarm on AWS? An obvious way would be to … Read more
The Docker Registry acts as the repository for image data for most deployments. Whether you’re using the fully supported Docker Trusted Registry, or the open source version deployed by itself or in combination with something like Red Hat’s OpenShift, the preferred storage for the images is object based. While the registry can be configured to … Read more
We are excited and proud to announce the availability of the next version of the NetApp Docker Volume Plugin, 17.07. Continuing to improve on the awesomeness that is the nDVP, we have several new features in this release! Without further ado… Customized NFS Mount Options One of the early enhancement requests we received for nDVP … Read more
It’s not common knowledge, but NetApp actually introduced the concept of a snapshot to the industry, the ability to quickly and efficiently record the state of a volume at a point in time, as part of ONTAP way back in 1993. In fact, many of ONTAP’s most valuable features are built on snapshots, including clones. … Read more
In this post we will show how to deploy a containerized MongoDB replica-set using StatefulSets on Kubernetes with NetApp Trident and underlying SolidFire or ONTAP storage. It is important to understand the concept of StatefulSets before we go further, if you do not yet know about StatefulSets you can go through this StatefulSet tutorial. MongoDB is no … Read more
Last month the NetApp SolidFire integrations team released the latest PowerShell Tools for managing SolidFire systems. This release (1.3.1.4) is the first release to also include direct support for the module outside of Microsoft Windows operating environments. Leveraging the recently open-sourced .Net Core, this release allows us to deploy the SolidFire PowerShell Tools on Linux, … Read more
NetApp recently announced that the NetApp Docker Volume Plugin (nDVP) is now a Docker Certified Plugin available from the Docker Store! What does that mean for you? It means that installing and managing the supported plugin is now extraordinarily easy. Docker Engine managed plugins are managed directly from the Docker command line, and deployed as … Read more
The NetApp Manageability SDK, usually shortened to NMSDK, contains the libraries used by many applications to connect and execute actions against NetApp systems. It has libraries for, among others, Java, .NET, Perl, Python, Ruby, and compiled C/C++ binaries for various *nix flavors as well, which means that regardless of your platform, you can write applications … Read more