Greetings CloudStack Community, I am a member of the NetApp Storage team, currently serving as an architect. We are exploring the opportunity to develop a storage plugin for Apache CloudStack that supports key functionalities such as volume creation, snapshotting, cloning, resizing, and more.
We found the official CloudStack documentation to be clear and helpful, which enabled us to successfully set up primary storage using external storage through static configuration. We are now investigating the dynamic allocation of ONTAP storage volumes for primary storage provisioning. In this context, we have a few queries we would like to discuss with the community: 1. Could you guide us on the process for contributing code to the CloudStack project? 2. Would it be appropriate to present and discuss our proposed design for the NetApp storage plugin? 3. We have reviewed the storage plugin documentation outlining vendor implementation requirements—are there any additional best practices we should be aware of? 4. Could you share recommendations or guidelines regarding internal CI/CD processes that contributors typically follow? 5. We appreciate your support and look forward to your guidance. Best regards, Rajiv Jain Architect, NetApp Storage Team
