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Customize Trident operator installation

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The Trident operator allows you to customize Astra Trident installation using the attributes in the TridentOrchestrator spec. If you want to customize the installation beyond what TridentOrchestrator arguments allow, consider using tridentctl to generate custom YAML manifests to modify as needed.

Understanding controller pods and node pods

Astra Trident runs as a single controller pod, plus a node pod on each worker node in the cluster. The node pod must be running on any host where you want to potentially mount an Astra Trident volume.

Kubernetes node selectors and tolerations and taints are used to constrain a pod to run on a specific or preferred node. Using the`ControllerPlugin` and NodePlugin, you can specify constraints and overrides.

  • The controller plugin handles volume provisioning and management, such as snapshots and resizing.

  • The node plugin handles attaching the storage to the node.

Configuration options

Warning spec.namespace is specified in TridentOrchestrator to signify the namespace where Astra Trident is installed. This parameter cannot be updated after Astra Trident is installed. Attempting to do so causes the TridentOrchestrator status to change to Failed. Astra Trident is not intended to be migrated across namespaces.

This table details TridentOrchestrator attributes.

Parameter Description Default

namespace

Namespace to install Astra Trident in

"default"

debug

Enable debugging for Astra Trident

false

enableForceDetach

ontap-san and ontap-san-economy only.

Works with Kubernetes Non-Graceful Node Shutdown (NGNS) to grant cluster administrators ability to safely migrate workloads with mounted volumes to new nodes should a node become unhealthy.

This is an experimental feature in 23.04. Refer to Details about force detach for important details.

false

windows

Setting to true enables installation on Windows worker nodes.

false

cloudProvider

Set to "Azure" when using managed identities on an AKS cluster.

""

IPv6

Install Astra Trident over IPv6

false

k8sTimeout

Timeout for Kubernetes operations

30sec

silenceAutosupport

Don't send autosupport bundles to NetApp
automatically

false

autosupportImage

The container image for Autosupport Telemetry

"netapp/trident-autosupport:23.10"

autosupportProxy

The address/port of a proxy for sending Autosupport
Telemetry

"http://proxy.example.com:8888"

uninstall

A flag used to uninstall Astra Trident

false

logFormat

Astra Trident logging format to be used [text,json]

"text"

tridentImage

Astra Trident image to install

"netapp/trident:23.10"

imageRegistry

Path to internal registry, of the format
<registry FQDN>[:port][/subpath]

"k8s.gcr.io/sig-storage" (Kubernetes 1.19+)
or "quay.io/k8scsi"

kubeletDir

Path to the kubelet directory on the host

"/var/lib/kubelet"

wipeout

A list of resources to delete to perform a complete removal of
Astra Trident

imagePullSecrets

Secrets to pull images from an internal registry

imagePullPolicy

Sets the image pull policy for the the Trident operator. Valid values are:

Always to always pull the image.

IfNotPresent to pull the image only if it does not already exist on the node.

Never to never pull the image.

IfNotPresent

controllerPluginNodeSelector

Additional node selectors for pods. Follows same format as pod.spec.nodeSelector.

No default; optional

controllerPluginTolerations

Overrides Kubernetes tolerations for pods. Follows the same format as pod.spec.Tolerations.

No default; optional

nodePluginNodeSelector

Additional node selectors for pods. Follows same format as pod.spec.nodeSelector.

No default; optional

nodePluginTolerations

Overrides Kubernetes tolerations for pods. Follows the same format as pod.spec.Tolerations.

No default; optional
Note For more information on formatting pod parameters, see Assigning Pods to Nodes.

Details about force detach

Force detach is available for ontap-san and ontap-san-economy only. Before enabling force detach, non-graceful node shutdown (NGNS) must be enabled on the Kubernetes cluster. For more information, refer to Kubernetes: Non Graceful node shutdown.

Warning Because Astra Trident relies on Kubernetes NGNS, do not remove out-of-service taints from an unhealthy node until all non-tolerable workloads are rescheduled. Recklessly applying or removing the taint can jeopardize backend data protection.

When the Kubernetes cluster administrator has applied the node.kubernetes.io/out-of-service=nodeshutdown:NoExecute taint to the node and enableForceDetach is set to true, Astra Trident will determine the node status and:

  1. Cease backend I/O access for volumes mounted to that node.

  2. Mark the Astra Trident node object as dirty (not safe for new publications).

    Note The Trident controller will reject new publish volume requests until the node is re-qualified (after having been marked as dirty) by the Trident node pod. Any workloads scheduled with a mounted PVC (even after the cluster node is healthy and ready) will be not be accepted until Astra Trident can verify the node clean (safe for new publications).

When node health is restored and the taint is removed, Astra Trident will:

  1. Identify and clean stale published paths on the node.

  2. If the node is in a cleanable state (the out-of-service taint has been removed and the node is in Ready state) and all stale, published paths are clean, Astra Trident will readmit the node as clean and allow new published volumes to the node.

Sample configurations

You can use the attributes in Configuration options when defining TridentOrchestrator to customize your installation.

Basic custom configuration

This is an example for a basic custom installation.

cat deploy/crds/tridentorchestrator_cr_imagepullsecrets.yaml
apiVersion: trident.netapp.io/v1
kind: TridentOrchestrator
metadata:
  name: trident
spec:
  debug: true
  namespace: trident
  imagePullSecrets:
  - thisisasecret
Node selectors

This example installs Astra Trident with node selectors.

apiVersion: trident.netapp.io/v1
kind: TridentOrchestrator
metadata:
  name: trident
spec:
  debug: true
  namespace: trident
  controllerPluginNodeSelector:
    nodetype: master
  nodePluginNodeSelector:
    storage: netapp
Windows worker nodes

This example installs Astra Trident on a Windows worker node.

cat deploy/crds/tridentorchestrator_cr.yaml
apiVersion: trident.netapp.io/v1
kind: TridentOrchestrator
metadata:
  name: trident
spec:
  debug: true
  namespace: trident
  windows: true
Managed identities on an AKS cluster

This example installs Astra Trident to enable managed identities on an AKS cluster.

apiVersion: trident.netapp.io/v1
kind: TridentOrchestrator
metadata:
  name: trident
spec:
  debug: true
  namespace: trident
  cloudProvider: "Azure"