Trident

Storage Orchestrator for Containers

Introduction

• What is Trident?

Kubernetes

• Trident for Kubernetes
  • Deploying
    • Before you begin
    • 1: Qualify your Kubernetes cluster
    • 2: Download & extract the installer
    • 3: Configure the installer
    • 4: Install Trident
      • Customized Installation
    • 5: Add your first backend
    • 6: Add your first storage class
    • 7: Provision your first volume
    • 8: Mount the volume in a pod
  • Common tasks
    • Managing Trident
      • Installing Trident
      • Updating Trident
      • Uninstalling Trident
    • Worker preparation
      • NFS
      • iSCSI
    • Backend configuration
      • Element (SolidFire)
        • Preparation
        • Backend configuration options
        • Example configuration
        • Using access groups
      • ONTAP (AFF/FAS/Select/Cloud)
        • Choosing a driver
        • Preparation
          • ontap-nas, ontap-nas-economy, ontap-nas-flexgroups
          • ontap-san
        • Backend configuration options
        • Example configuration
        • User permissions
      • SANtricity (E-Series)
        • Preparation
        • Backend configuration options
        • Example configuration
    • Managing backends
      • Creating a backend configuration
      • Creating a backend
      • Deleting a backend
      • Viewing the existing backends
      • Identifying the storage classes that will use a backend
      • Updating a backend
    • Managing storage classes
      • Designing a storage class
      • Creating a storage class
      • Deleting a storage class
      • Viewing the existing storage classes
      • Setting a default storage class
      • Identifying the Trident backends that a storage class will use
    • Managing volumes
      • Resizing an NFS volume
  • Production considerations
    • etcd
      • Trident’s use of etcd
      • Using an external etcd cluster
      • Building your own etcd cluster
        • Installing
        • Testing
        • Uninstalling
  • Concepts
    • Kubernetes and Trident objects
      • Object overview
      • Kubernetes PersistentVolumeClaim objects
      • Kubernetes PersistentVolume objects
      • Kubernetes StorageClass objects
      • Trident StorageClass objects
      • Trident Backend objects
      • Trident StoragePool objects
      • Trident Volume objects
    • How does provisioning work?
  • Known issues
  • Troubleshooting
  • CSI Trident for Kubernetes
    • CSI overview
    • CSI Trident
      • Installing CSI Trident
      • Using CSI Trident
      • Uninstalling CSI Trident

Docker

• Trident for Docker
  • Deploying
  • Host and storage configuration
    • Host Configuration
      • NFS
      • iSCSI
      • Traditional Install Method (Docker <= 1.12)
        • Starting Trident at System Startup
      • Docker Managed Plugin Method (Docker >= 1.13 / 17.03)
    • Global Configuration
    • ONTAP Configuration
      • User Permissions
      • Configuration File Options
      • Scaling Options
      • Example ONTAP Config Files
    • SolidFire Configuration
      • Example Solidfire Config File
    • E-Series Configuration
      • Example E-Series Config File
      • E-Series Array Setup Notes
    • Multiple Instances of Trident
  • Common tasks
    • Managing Trident
      • Installing Trident
      • Updating Trident
      • Uninstalling Trident
    • Managing volumes
      • Create a Volume
      • Volume Driver CLI Options
        • ONTAP Volume Options
        • SolidFire Volume Options
          • Other SolidFire Create Options
        • E-Series Volume Options
          • Media Type
          • File System Type
      • Destroy a Volume
      • Volume Cloning
      • Access Externally Created Volumes
  • Known issues
  • Troubleshooting
    • Managed plugin method
    • Binary method

Support

• Requirements
  • Supported frontends (orchestrators)
  • Supported backends (storage)
  • Supported host operating systems
  • Host configuration
  • Storage system configuration
  • External etcd cluster (Optional)
• Getting help

Reference

• trident
  • Logging
  • Persistence
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • REST
• tridentctl
  • create
  • delete
  • get
  • install
  • logs
  • uninstall
  • update
  • version
• REST API
• Simple Kubernetes install
  • Prerequisites
  • Install Docker CE 17.03
  • Install the appropriate version of kubeadm, kubectl and kubelet
  • Configure the host
  • Create the cluster
  • Install the kubectl creds and untaint the cluster
  • Add an overlay network
  • Verify that all of the services started