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, SolidFire/HCI, E-Series storage systems, and soon for NetApp Cloud Volumes. It is deployed as … Read more
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
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
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
A couple of months ago, our team received the mandate to set up a Red Hat OpenShift cluster in offline mode to support a brilliant use case for gaining performance insight. I was very excited. I use the word “excited” because it’s fascinating to see how Kubernetes has become one of the fastest-growing open-source projects … Read more
Red Hat’s OpenShift is one of the more popular Platform-as-a-Service offerings for deploying containerized applications. It’s built on Kubernetes, but also adds a large number of additional services to make the process of creating, deploying, and managing applications easy. One of the services which OpenShift provides is a version of the Docker Registry to host … Read more
Trident 17.07 introduced a simplified management tool for interacting with Trident: tridentctl. This command line tool eliminates the previous method of using shell scripts inside the Trident containers and instead introduces a paradigm which mimics Kubernetes own kubectl. Let’s look at how to use tridentctl to interact with, and get information from, Trident. Managing the … Read more
Kubernetes 1.6 was introduced not too long ago, and it includes some significant updates for those taking advantage of dynamic provisioning using Trident. Even though 1.6 is now a version behind (1.7 was released just last week), the changes to storage classes were extensive. We are very happy to announce that Trident 17.07 is available … Read more