by David Blackwell | Jul 8, 2020 | Ansible, Automation, Cluster, Configuration Management, DevOps, ONTAP, Operations, Playbooks, thePub
This previous post showed how to setup and use SSL certificates for authentication instead of a username/password combination. The post mentioned that this can be used with Tower as well. This new post will show the minor updates to a Projects repository that are...
by David Blackwell | Jun 25, 2020 | Ansible, Automation, Cluster, Configuration Management, DevOps, ONTAP, Playbooks, thePub
One of the most requested features for our Ansible modules has been the ability to not have to use username/password authentication. We are happy to announce that with the release of the NetApp ONTAP Ansible collection 20.6.0 the ability to use certificates for...
by David Blackwell | May 26, 2020 | Ansible, Automation, Cluster, Configuration Management, ONTAP, Operations, Playbooks, thePub
Active IQ is a digital advisor providing insights into NetApp environments allowing the proactive care and optimization of those systems. The web-based dashboard (aiq.netapp.com) makes it easy to monitor your systems and provides the steps to remediate any potential...
by David Blackwell | May 15, 2020 | Ansible, Automation, Cluster, Configuration Management, DevOps, ONTAP, Operations, Playbooks, thePub, Use Cases
Fully automated Day-0 setup is a goal of the “next-gen” datacenter. This is 99.9% possible with ONTAP and Ansible. The only console work that needs to be done is to assign a password to the ‘admin’ account and to make note of the DHCP address assigned to the nodes,...
by David Blackwell | Apr 28, 2020 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, thePub
QUICK TIP Since the arrival of Collections, docs.ansible.com is no longer an up to date source of documentation for the NetApp modules. However, there is still an easy way to see the documentation, complete with examples, for the modules in a collection. Ansible...
