Sharing same SVM for multiple trident clusters

[hearty rose]

Hello,

We have customers and I know it is a best practice to dedicate an SVM for trident but in our case it's not common to separate into multiple SVMs for a single customer.

Is it possible to share the same SVM with two k8s clusters ? (one for production, one for testing purpose)

[patent cypress]

That's definitely possible but bear in mind that the ONTAP credentials have access to the full SVM (volumes of both k8s clusters) so only do this if your k8s admins are trusted

[last sun]

And you can limit the svm to a quota if needed but EVERYTHING in that svm will abide by any svm quota limit

It is virtual. Why can’t you just create another dedicated svm for the k8s?

[hearty rose]

we can technically, we just have an app to manage customers and typically for that app an SVM => a customer in our db. if we start to create multiple SVMs for a customer it breaks it

[patent cypress]

sounds like a problem that's easy to solve (just add "_test" to the SVM name for the testing environment for example)

but yeah nothing technically prohibits sharing a single SVM for everything. It's just not best practice I would say