NetApp Trident
Data connectivity to persistent data stores for Kubernetes applications
NetApp Trident is a fully-supported open source project maintained by NetApp as part of the Trident product family. It has been designed to help you meet your containerized applications and virtual machines' persistence demands using industry-standard interfaces, such as the Container Storage Interface (CSI).
NetApp Trident enables consumption and management of storage resources across all popular NetApp storage platforms, in the public cloud, virtualized environments, or on premises, including ONTAP (AFF, FAS, Select, Cloud, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP), Azure NetApp Files service, and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes service.
NetApp Trident is a Container Storage Interface (CSI) compliant dynamic storage orchestrator that natively integrates with Kubernetes. It runs as a single Controller Pod plus a Node Pod on each worker node in the cluster.
Use Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and ONTAP storage to run and manage VMs, and NetApp Trident to enable live VM migration, VM disk cloning, and VM snapshots to simplify infrastructure management and data protection.
NetApp Trident also provides an optional add-on called Trident protect. It provides advanced application data management capabilities that simplify the management, protection, and movement of modern workloads (containers or virtual machines on OpenShift) across public clouds and on-premises environments. It also offers automation capabilities through its API and CLI.
