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
Ensuring that only authorized applications and users can access Kubernetes volumes provisioned by Trident is obviously a paramount concern. It’s one of the first deeper conversations we tend to have with anyone planning a deployment. The good news is that Kubernetes and Trident work together to provide highly secure persistence, provided that you follow these … Read more
Leaves are back on the trees, flowers are blooming, pollen is in the air! As the saying goes, April showers bring Trident releases, and we are very happy to announce that Trident 18.04 is now available! Take your allergy pill, change the oil in your lawn mower, and come see what’s new and exciting! Completely … Read more
Since the earliest days of ONTAP, snapshots have been a feature which has played a significant role in providing point-in-time recovery options for data which has been lost or corrupted accidentally. They are instant, space efficient, and, when the snapshot directory is turned on for the volume, provide the application or user a way to … Read more
Overview PostgreSQL is a popular open-source relational database, and in this post you will see how you can deploy PostgreSQL in a Kubernetes environment using Helm charts with Trident, a dynamic storage provisioner from NetApp for Kubernetes. You will also learn how you can offer standard PostgreSQL deployments using templates (Helm) which do not require … 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
Hot off the presses just in time for the holidays, we present to you the latest beta version of Trident, our storage orchestrator for Kubernetes-based platforms. This release introduces several new features, but today we’re going to focus on an exciting one that we’ve been looking forward to bringing to you for a while: self-service … Read more
Ok, I admit that I’m very, very late with this blog post: Trident 17.10 has actually been available for nearly six weeks! It’s hard to believe, but Trident has been out for almost a year now, and this release resolves issue #2, one of the earliest feature requests we received: scale the number of volumes … Read more