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Quick start for Trident

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You can install Trident and start managing storage resources in a few steps. Before getting started, review Trident requirements.

Note For Docker, refer to Trident for Docker.
One Install Trident

Trident offers several installation methods and modes optimized for a variety of environments and organizations.

Install Trident

Two Prepare the worker node

All worker nodes in the Kubernetes cluster must be able to mount the volumes you have provisioned for your pods.

Prepare the worker node

Three Create a backend

A backend defines the relationship between Trident and a storage system. It tells Trident how to communicate with that storage system and how Trident should provision volumes from it.

Configure a backend for your storage system

Four Create a Kubernetes StorageClass

The Kubernetes StorageClass object specifies Trident as the provisioner and allows you to create a storage class to provision volumes with customizable attributes. Trident creates a matching storage class for Kubernetes objects that specify the Trident provisioner.

Create a storage class

Five Provision a volume

A PersistentVolume (PV) is a physical storage resource provisioned by the cluster administrator on a Kubernetes cluster. The PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) is a request for access to the PersistentVolume on the cluster.

Create a PersistentVolume (PV) and a PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) that uses the configured Kubernetes StorageClass to request access to the PV. You can then mount the PV to a pod.

Provision a volume

What's next?

You can now add additional backends, manage storage classes, manage backends, and perform volume operations.