Behind the Scenes Episode 379: NetApp Astra 23.10 Updates

Welcome to the Episode 379, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” When you have a Kubernetes cluster that your applications depend on to stay online, you have to seriously consider how you plan on recovering in the case a disaster strikes. Ransomware, power failures, cloud region outages all …

Behind the Scenes Episode 344: NetApp Cloud Insights featuring ONTAP Essentials

Welcome to the Episode 344, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week, NetApp Cloud Insights Product Manager Yossi Weihs (yossi.weihs@netapp.com) and Technical Director Ed Barron (edward.barron@netapp.com) join us to discuss Cloud Insights and the latest feature - ONTAP Essentials. For more information: NetApp releases Monitoring, Alerting, and …

Behind the Scenes Episode 343: VMware Explore 2022 – NetApp Recap

Welcome to the Episode 343, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, NetApp TMEs Chance Bingen (chance.bingen@netapp.com, @CB8MyDataCenter) and Niyaz Mohamed (niyaz.mohamed@netapp.com) join NetApp's Director of the Global VMware Alliance, Jason Kotsaftis (jason.kotsaftis@netapp.com), to discuss NetApp's announcements at VMware Explore 2022 including the VMware …

Behind the Scenes Episode 342 – All About Yves (Weisser), Kubernetes and GitHub Repos

Welcome to the Episode 342, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, NetApp Solutions Architect Yves Weisser (yves.weisser@netapp.com, @YvosPivo) joins us to discuss his Kubernetes journey, Astra, his excellent GitHub repo and the French NetApp podcast! For more information: Yves' GitHub Repo Le Podcast …

Behind the Scenes Episode 341 – NetApp Astra Control DR – Customer Perspectives

Welcome to the Episode 341, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, we feature two of our NetApp Astra Control customers as they kick the tires on the new SnapMirror support in Astra 22.08. Join me and Astra Product Manager Hrishi Kermane (hrishi@netapp.com) as …

Behind the Scenes Episode 339 – NetApp Astra Control Updates – August 2022

Welcome to the Episode 339, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week, Sayan Saha (sayans@netapp.com) joins us to discuss the latest updates to NetApp's Astra Control product - NetApp's application-aware data protection and mobility offering for stateful Kubernetes applications. For more information: https://www.netapp.com/cloud-services/astra https://cloud.netapp.com/astra-control Top 5 Reasons …

Behind the Scenes Episode 332 – How NetApp Approaches DevOps

Welcome to the Episode 332, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week, NetApp Astra Product Manager Tim Doering (tim.doering@netapp.com) joins us to talk about how NetApp approaches DevOps and what sort of solutions are available in the NetApp product portfolio. For more information: Our DevOps blogs: https://cloud.netapp.com/blog/topic/devops Our …

Behind the Scenes Episode 319 – SUSE Rancher, Kubernetes and NetApp

Welcome to the Episode 319, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week, Partner Solution Architect, Andy King (andy.king@suse.com, Andy King - LinkedIn) and Principal Technical Evangelist, Luke Mwila (luke.mwila@suse.com, Luke Mwila - LinkedIn, @Luke9ine) of SUSE join us to discuss Rancher and its place in the long line …

Behind the Scenes Episode 317 – NetApp Astra Control Center: What’s new in Winter 2022?

Welcome to the Episode 317, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week, NetApp Senior Product Manager for Cloud, Hrishi Keramane (hrishi.keramane@netapp.com) joins us to discuss Astra Control Center and the payload in the latest release, including: Support for Kubernetes Operators Support for OpenShift Operator Hub Public cloud block …

This is the Way – My K8s Learning Journey, Part 4: Initial configuration challenges and unexpected surprises

This post is one of a series about my journey in learning Kubernetes from the perspective of a total n00b. Feel free to suggest topics in the comments. For more posts in this series, click this link. In the previous post of this series, I finally got a K8s cluster installed using kubectl. But, there …