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Architecture and components

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Here is an overview of the various components of the Astra Control environment.

Astra Control architecture diagram and components

Astra Control components

  • Kubernetes clusters: Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services, that facilitates both declarative configuration and automation. Astra provides management services for applications hosted in a Kubernetes cluster.

  • Astra Control Provisioner: As a fully supported storage provisioner and orchestrator maintained by NetApp that contains Astra Trident CSI functionality along with extended storage management capabilities, Astra Control Provisioner enables you to create storage volumes for containerized applications managed by Docker and Kubernetes. When deployed with Astra Control, Astra Control Provisioner includes a configured ONTAP storage backend.

  • Cloud Insights: A NetApp cloud infrastructure monitoring tool, Cloud Insights enables you to monitor performance and utilization for your Kubernetes clusters managed by Astra Control Center. Cloud Insights correlates storage usage to workloads. When you enable the Cloud Insights connection in Astra Control Center, telemetry information shows in Astra Control Center UI pages.

Astra Control interfaces

You can complete tasks using different interfaces:

  • Web user interface (UI): Both Astra Control Service and Astra Control Center use the same web-based UI where you can manage, migrate and protect apps. Use the UI also to manage user accounts and configuration settings.

  • API: Both Astra Control Service and Astra Control Center use the same Astra Control API. Using the API, you can perform the same tasks that you would using the UI.

Astra Control Center also enables you to manage, migrate, and protect Kubernetes clusters running within VM environments.