NetApp Kubernetes Services (NKS)
At start NKS was available in public clouds, then NetApp added NKS to on-prem NetApp HCI. And on VMworld 2019 in Las Vegas, before Insight 2019 NetApp announced NKS on VMware (no NetApp HCI platform needed).
- Now supported on Azure NetApp Files
- NKS with FlexPod
- NKS visibility in Cloud Insights
- NetApp HCI + NKS: DevOps End-to-End Pipeline with Trident
- https://blog.netapp.com/private-cloud-kubernetes-for-the-enterprise-done-easily/
- https://whyistheinternetbroken.wordpress.com/2019/09/06/ep207-vmworld2019-recap/
Containers
Kubernetes Volume Snapshots & FlexClones with Trident for Cloud & On-Prem.
In August, NetApp took its Managed Kubernetes Service to the next level with a new partnership with VMware, allowing users to manage workloads and infrastructure across public and private environments in a single pane of glass.
NetApp Trident
- Trident 19.10
- Resizing iSCSI Persistent Volumes
- Support for Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud Platform
- A SAN economy driver for ONTAP: creates PVs as ONTAP LUNs. The driver creates them within a pool of automatically managed FlexVols. The ontap-san-economy driver supports Kubernetes VolumeSnapshots and PVC Clones from VolumeSnapshots
- iSCSI volume resize is operational with Trident in the CSI mode and Kubernetes version 1.16 or greater. Trident will resize the volume on the storage, extends the filesystem, re-scans the device and performs reattach
- Support for Kubernetes 1.16 and OpenShift 4.2
- Clone PVCs with CSI Volume Cloning
- Support for iSCSI raw block volumes in CSI mode, including multi-attach support
- Complete list of enhancements and bug fixes, check out the Release Info
- Trident v19.07
- Support for Azure NetApp Files (ANF)
- Creation and deletion of volume snapshots via Kubernetes native API
- Container Storage Interface (CSI) starting with Kubernetes v1.14 release: On-demand volume snapshots
- Creating Persistent Volumes from Snapshots
- Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRD) for Trident: CRDs will replace Trident’s own etcd database (which previously required a separate volume) to maintain its state and now instead will store Trident’s metadata in the Kubernetes clusters’s etcd database alongside other tools
- Virtual Storage Pools for Element and E-Series
- Cloud Manager to Deploy Trident and Cloud Volumes ONTAP
- NetApp HCI + NKS: DevOps End-to-End Pipeline with Trident
- Set up disaster recovery for your Kubernetes master & Trident with SnapMirror
Ansible
- GA of Ansible 2.9 on 30 OCTOBER:
- Twelve (12) new certified modules for ONTAP
- For the first time eight (8) modules for Cloud Volume Services (CVS)
- Total number of Ansible modules for NetApp now is 106!
- 77 for ONTAP
- 21 for Element Software
- 8 for CVS
- NetApp Ansible playbooks going to be available as Collections through Ansible Galaxy
- Use this Docker container to test NetApp Ansible playbooks
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Announcements from Aug-Nov 2019
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