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 hot keyboard, to bring you some amazing … Read more
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 different from the others. Introduced just over a year ago as a collaboration between … Read more
If you’re a member of our Slack Team, you’ve probably seen a bunch of messages in the containers channel where GitHub issues have been getting closed. There’s a good reason for that! We just released the first beta for the next major Trident release! You might be wondering what triggers a beta release for Trident. … Read more
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