Design and Architecture Guide

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Target Audience
• 2. Concepts and Definitions
  • 2.1. Kubernetes storage concepts
  • 2.2. Kubernetes Compute Concepts
  • 2.3. Connecting containers to storage
  • 2.4. Destroying and creating pods
  • 2.5. Container Storage Interface
• 3. NetApp Products and Integrations with Kubernetes
  • 3.1. Trident
  • 3.2. ONTAP
  • 3.3. Element OS
  • 3.4. NetApp HCI
  • 3.5. SANtricity
• 4. Kubernetes Cluster Architecture and Considerations
  • 4.1. Cluster concepts and components
  • 4.2. Cluster architectures
  • 4.3. Choosing an architecture
  • 4.4. Persistent storage for cluster services
• 5. Storage for Kubernetes Infrastructure Services
  • 5.1. Persistent storage for cluster services
  • 5.2. Design choices and guidelines when using ONTAP
• 6. Storage Configuration for Trident
  • 6.1. Best practices for configuring ONTAP
  • 6.2. Best practices for configuring SolidFire
• 7. Deploying Trident
  • 7.1. Supported Kubernetes cluster architectures
  • 7.2. Trident installation modes
  • 7.3. Trident CSI installation
  • 7.4. Recommendations for all deployments
  • 7.5. Deploying Trident to OpenShift
• 8. Integrating Trident
  • 8.1. Trident backend design
  • 8.2. Storage Class design
  • 8.3. PVC characteristics which affect storage provisioning
  • 8.4. Modifying persistent volumes
  • 8.5. When to manually provision a volume instead of using Trident
  • 8.6. Deploying OpenShift services using Trident
• 9. Backup and Disaster Recovery
  • 9.1. ONTAP snapshots
  • 9.2. SolidFire snapshots
  • 9.3. Etcd snapshots using etcdctl command line utility
  • 9.4. Data replication using ONTAP
• 10. Security Recommendations
  • 10.1. Run Trident in its own namespace
  • 10.2. etcd container
  • 10.3. CHAP authentication
  • 10.4. Storage backend credentials