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
On February 28th, the OpenStack community released its 17th version, codenamed Queens. As a leader in commercial storage solutions for OpenStack, NetApp added new features to Cinder and Manila. Cinder New Features Cinder now supports dynamic adjustment of overprovisioning space for volumes based on a calculation of free space in the backend, committed space, and … 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
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
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