AWS announced Astra Trident as EKS Add-on

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 short video, you can see all the necessary steps.

Now that Trident has been installed, you can continue with the backend configuration. I will share a small example – but for the complete settings take a look into the official documentation:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: backend-tbc-ontap-secret
type: Opaque
stringData:
  username: vsadmin
  password: netapp123
---
apiVersion: trident.netapp.io/v1
kind: TridentBackendConfig
metadata:
  name: backend-tbc-ontap-nas
spec:
  version: 1
  storageDriverName: ontap-nas
  managementLIF: your-management-ip
  backendName: tbc-ontap-nas
  exportPolicy: default
  storagePrefix: prefix
  autoExportPolicy: true
  autoExportCIDRs: ['0.0.0.0/0']
  credentials:
    name: backend-tbc-ontap-secret

Enjoy testing 🙂