What are these Trident ports used for?
Applies to
Trident, 25.02+
Answer
The Trident ports listed under the "Reference" section of the documentation are the ports that the trident-controller pod is listening on for communication from the daemonset pods running on each node.
Port Purpose
8443 Backchannel HTTPS
8000 Trident REST server
17546 Liveness/readiness probe port used by Trident daemonset pods
The Prometheus metrics endpoint is there for those who choose to set up Prometheus in their environments to monitor their Trident installation. This is optional and the steps to set it up are documented in the "Monitor Trident" section of the documentation.
Port Purpose
8001 Prometheus metrics endpoint
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