NFS Kerberos in a Kubernetes pod? That’s unpossible!

Recently, I've been on a Kubernetes n00b journey and have been documenting the steps here: This is the Way – My K8s Learning Journey, Part 1: Installing my First K8s Cluster I've also started a new video series called "NetApp Nailed It: Kubernetes Edition" where I encounter problems of my own making and ask experts for …

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It’s a Kerberos Khristmas!

Recently, I was working on a project where I was creating a POC of an Ubuntu container that could authenticate to LDAP and mount NFS Kerberos mounts without any interaction that would eventually be used in a Kubernetes environment. It was an improvement on the container image I created a while back in "Securing NFS …

Behind the Scenes – Episode 280: NetApp Trident Updates – Winter 2021

Welcome to the Episode 280, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week, NetApp Trident's product owner Chuck Fouts (fchuck@netapp.com) and Trident developer Jonathan Rippy (@jkrippy) drop by to discuss what's new for NetApp Trident! For more information: NetApp Trident NetApp Pub Podcast Transcriptions If you want an AI …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 248 – NABox and NetApp ONTAP Performance Monitoring with NetApp Harvest

Welcome to the Episode 248, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” Recently, I tried to set up NetApp Harvest from scratch, using Grafana and Graphite. By the end of the day, with no working instance, I realized that it just wasn't going to happen. Then, I remembered NABox …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 245 – Containers, Kubernetes and Automation in Dev and QA at NetApp

Welcome to the Episode 245, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” Automation technology - such as Kubernetes - is the current hot topic in IT circles, but it's not always clear where it might fit in existing environments. This podcast covers how NetApp's own dev and QA teams …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 155 – Trident 18.07 and… Goodbye, Sully?

Welcome to the Episode 155, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, we make Sully do work on his last day at NetApp, as we discuss what’s new in NetApp Trident 18.07. We also have some special guests - Jonathan Rippy (@jkrippy) and Garrett …

Securing NFS mounts in a Docker container

Setting up Kerberized NFS on a client can be a bit challenging, especially if you're trying to do it across multiple hosts. So, I decided I wanted to take on the challenge of creating an easy to deploy Docker container, using NetApp's Trident plugin to make life even easier. Why do I want Kerberos? With …

Docker + NFS + FlexGroup volumes = Magic!

A couple of years ago, I wrote up a blog on using NFS with Docker as I was tooling around with containers, in an attempt to wrap my head around them. Then, I never really touched them again and that blog got a bit... stale. Why stale? Well, in that blog, I had to create …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 99 – Databases as a Service, using Docker Containers

Welcome to the Episode 99, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, we sync up with NetApp's resident Oracle expert, Jeff Steiner (@tweetofsteiner), to discuss his work in containerizing databases. Visit thePub to learn more about NetApp Docker Volume Plugin 17.07 and Jeff’s …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 82 – DockerCon Preview Featuring nDVP and Trident

Welcome to the Episode 82, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, it’s just Justin and Andrew chatting about the upcoming Docker conference in Austin, TX, as well as updates to the NetApp Docker Volume Plugin and Trident. We get a bit rambuncuous …