Argo CD as Plattform To create an Argo CD project, you need to define a project in Argo CD that manages access and deployment for your GitOps repositories and clusters. Here’s a step-by-step guide to building an Argo CD project using YAML: Prerequisites: Argo CD installed and configured on your Kubernetes cluster. kubectl configured to com... Read More

OpenShift and NetApp Trident Integrated with GitOps In today’s IT landscape, automation and flexibility are key success factors. The effective integration of platforms like OpenShift, NetApp Trident, and GitOps brings us closer to a seamless DevOps environment that fosters both speed and stability. OpenShift serves as a robust container orches... Read More

Requirements Update Trident, activate ACP, install Astra Connector The prerequisite is a current Trident (version 24.02). Depending on which version is currently on the cluster, this may need to be updated (e.g. if deployed via Helm: helm upgrade trident -n trident netapp-trident/trident-operator). Then the ACP (Astra Control Provisioner) mode... Read More

View weeks ago AWS and NetApp announced that Astra Trident is now available as an EKS add-on. A nice step to bring EKS and FSxN together. I will show you how you can enable and use this add-on. The add-on must first be subscribed to before it can be used. Once everything has been completed, the Astra Trident add-on can be activated. In this sh... Read More

Kubernetes is an open-source platform for automating, scaling, and managing containerized applications. It enables companies to deploy and operate applications more efficiently by simplifying the orchestration and automation of containers. This automation can directly impact work-life balance by reducing the workload on IT teams. By using Kuber... Read More

NetApp Trident for ARM is now available ! How cool is that 😎? #ARM support in Astra Trident 2023.04! I tried it right away and deployed NetApp Trident in my #edge environment: ✔ 4 Node #kubernetes cluster on Raspberry PI 3/4. ✔ ONTAP on-prem and in the #cloud ✔ Internet Connectivity Router Pictures speak more than 1000 words… Read More

… with NetApp Cloud Insights Monitoring Kubernetes Clusters. A must in the service world. Anyone who provides service platforms must be able to tell at any time which and how many resources the customer’s applications are consuming. Immediately everyone thinks of Prometheus or maybe Splunk. But the most common tool is Prometheus. Prometheus col... Read More

Automated enabling backup In the first post, we wrote about the requirements for an optimized DevOps environment. In the second, we provisioned the Kubernetes cluster with NetApp storage. As soon as applications run in the Kubernetes cluster and generate data, there is no getting around the topic of backup. Astra Control is used as the backup ... Read More

Build your DevOps Environment! The LinkedIn post “NetApp in a Cloud DevOps Context” showed how an optimized Kubernetes environment can look in the cloud. This series of articles now show how to build such an environment in an automated way. There will be four parts to this series. Part 1: Planning Part 2: Setting up the required infrastru... Read More

NetApp in a Cloud DevOps Context! Are you running a Kubernetes platform in the cloud based on cloud provider native services today? Then let me show you how NetApp can help to optimize this environment. Each cloud provider uses its own storage products for its Kubernetes services, which are addressed via the CSI driver. In a NetApp optimized wo... Read More

Astra Control Center - December Release 2021 Today NetApp released the new release of Astra Control Center. ACC provides the ability to backup and restore kubernetes applications. Besides the classic bugfixing there are now a few new features: ✅ In-place restore ✅ Execution hook ✅ Support for additional Kubernetes distributions I have summa... Read More

Astra Control Service View month ago, NetApp announced Astra Control Service as their application aware backup tool for cloud provider native kubernetes cluster. In my video I show you how the backup and restore will work on GCP or Azure. This video is in German! Enjoy listening 😉 Read More

Trident Installer Addon Three month ago I published my first version of an automated NetApp Trident installer for Kubernetes cluster. In the last days I had some time to continue development on my installer. Time to change: my first version based on a bash script which runs in extra docker container. For running the script it was required to m... Read More

Who wasn‘t yet faced the challenge to install NetApp Trident on multiple kubernetes clusters? NetApp provides very good documentation on ReadTheDocs. But you must execute the instruction step by step. In addition to this documentation, I would like to introduce a way to install trident automatically in any k8s cluster via kubectl. The followin... Read More

NetApp Ansible Authentication with Hashicorp Vault Today I want to show how to use NetApp Ansible Modules together with a Credential Store. Although Ansible comes also with a vault, but I decided to use Hashicorp Vault today. The advantage of Hashicorp Vault is that you have a central management of credentials. The credential store can also be ... Read More

The last article shows, how you should prepare your environment. This post describes the configuration of GitLab and Jenkins. Jenkins configuration At first Jenkins has to be configured. This will be done by WebUI, which is reachable by http://NODE_IP:8080/login After a successfull authenication you will redirect to the Jenkins Dashboard. Co... Read More

This example will show you the CI/CD integration with Jenkins, Kubernetes and NetApp on a simple Web Application. Pre-requisits Before start this demo there are some requirements: Docker Hub Account for publishing the docker image a GIT repository (Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket, etc.) Kubernetes Cluster NetApp Storage System (FAS/AFF/CVO) ... Read More

Update: Jetzt mit Powershell Nach dem das Powershell Skript eine weile lief, habe ich mich daran gemacht, es einwenig umzubauen. Anforderung war, dass es in bestimmten Abständen laufen soll, aber man hierfür nicht die Cron von Linux nehmen muss. Ich habe mich dann Entschieden Powershell 6 Core zu verweden. Wie bekomme ich die Daten aus der CCU?... Read More

Wer kennt das nicht. Heizt die Heizung richtig? Wie verhält sich die Raumtemperatur? Wie sieht es mit der Luftfeutigkeit im Zimmer aus? Homematic bietet zwar die Möglichkeit Werte in einem Graphen darzustellen. Das war für mich allerdings sehr unbefriedigend. Und eine andere Lösung muss her: Visualisierung mit Grafana Grafana bietet die beste ... Read More