Tired of manually managing PVCs and static storage classes? Then look no further, in the 2 part video series I’ll be taking you through the steps required to enable dynamic storage provisioning using Azure NetApp Files as an example of what responsive, low-latency, high-performance storage can do for your k8s applications.

Video Guide

Step-by-Step

Create a service principal with contributor rights to the correct scope (subscription, resource groups, etc)

az ad sp create-for-rbac --name "Trident" —-role contributor --scopes /subscriptions/enter-your-sub-id-here/resourceGroups/rg-sponsored-csa-west-europe-anf

Download and install Trident

Next, download and install trident with the following commands:

wget https://github.com/NetApp/trident/releases/download/v20.01.1/trident-installer-20.01.1.tar.gz

tar -xf trident-installer-20.01.1.tar.gz

cd trident-installer

Note: always check the repo for the latest version numbers (https://github.com/NetApp/trident)

And that’s it for this post, part 2 will cover how to create and verify the back end and storage classes for use by Azure Kubernetes Service.

The full Trident installation guide is available here: https://netapp-trident.readthedocs.io/en/latest/kubernetes/deploying.html#install-trident