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Trident is a fully-supported open source project maintained by NetApp. It has been designed to help you meet your containerized application's persistence demands using industry-standard interfaces, such as the Container Storage Interface (CSI).
What is Trident?
Netapp Trident enables consumption and management of storage resources across all popular NetApp storage platforms, in the public cloud or on premises, including ONTAP (AFF, FAS, Select, Cloud, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP), Element software (NetApp HCI, SolidFire), Azure NetApp Files service, and Cloud Volumes Service on Google Cloud.
Trident is a Container Storage Interface (CSI) compliant dynamic storage orchestrator that natively integrates with Kubernetes. Trident runs as a single Controller Pod plus a Node Pod on each worker node in the cluster. Refer to Trident architecture for details.
Trident also provides direct integration with the Docker ecosystem for NetApp storage platforms. The NetApp Docker Volume Plugin (nDVP) supports the provisioning and management of storage resources from the storage platform to Docker hosts. Refer to Deploy Trident for Docker for details.
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If this is your first time using Kubernetes, you should familiarize yourself with the Kubernetes concepts and tools. |
Take the Trident test drive
To take a test drive, request access to the "Easily Deploy and Clone Persistent Storage for Containerized Workloads" NetApp Test Drive using a ready-to-use lab image. The test drive provides a sandbox environment with a three-node Kubernetes cluster and Trident installed and configured. This is a great way to familiarize yourself with Trident and explore its features.
Another option is the kubeadm Install Guide provided by Kubernetes.
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Don't use a Kubernetes cluster that you build using these instructions in a production environment. Use the production deployment guides provided by your distribution for production-ready clusters. |
Kubernetes integration with NetApp products
The NetApp portfolio of storage products integrates with many aspects of a Kubernetes cluster, providing advanced data management capabilities, which enhance the functionality, capability, performance, and availability of the Kubernetes deployment.
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is a fully managed AWS service that lets you launch and run file systems powered by the NetApp ONTAP storage operating system.
Azure NetApp Files
Azure NetApp Files is an enterprise-grade Azure file share service, powered by NetApp. You can run your most demanding file-based workloads in Azure natively, with the performance and rich data management you expect from NetApp.
Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Cloud Volumes ONTAP is a software-only storage appliance that runs the ONTAP data management software in the cloud.
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes is a fully managed file storage service in Google Cloud that provides high-performance, enterprise-grade file storage.
Element software
Element enables the storage administrator to consolidate workloads by guaranteeing performance and enabling a simplified and streamlined storage footprint.
NetApp HCI
NetApp HCI simplifies the management and scale of the datacenter by automating routine tasks and enabling infrastructure administrators to focus on more important functions.
Trident can provision and manage storage devices for containerized applications directly against the underlying NetApp HCI storage platform.
NetApp ONTAP
NetApp ONTAP is the NetApp multiprotocol, unified storage operating system that provides advanced data management capabilities for any application.
ONTAP systems have all-flash, hybrid, or all-HDD configurations and offer many different deployment models, including engineered hardware (FAS and AFF), white-box (ONTAP Select), and cloud-only (Cloud Volumes ONTAP). Trident supports these ONTAP deployment models.