by David Blackwell | Mar 5, 2019 | Configuration Management
There is a lot of buzz around DevOps these days often leading to confusion. I hear people asking, “What is DevOps?”, “How do I do DevOps?”, “What do I need for DevOps?”. Everyone needs to go faster these days. AWS puts out over 10,000 changes a DAY! A DevOps...
by David Blackwell | Jan 30, 2019 | Configuration Management
In a previous post I showed how the ansible-vault can be used to keep passwords secure. What about those locations that only get access to Ansible Tower, and aren’t able to run ansible-vault? We are going to go through the steps to use the Tower credentials to...
by David Blackwell | Jan 9, 2019 | CI/CD Pipeline, Configuration Management, Use Cases
Sites trying to move into a DevOps model often want to implement a Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Deployment (CD) process. This can be challenging without any frames of reference. For our Ansible development we use such a process and want to share that with...
by David Blackwell | Dec 14, 2018 | Configuration Management
As I have mentioned in the past, the normal way of commutation for Ansible, SSH, is not possible with the NetApp systems. We use http and https communications. This however requires a username and password combination for each task run. Interactive playbooks can...
by David Blackwell | Dec 11, 2018 | Configuration Management
One of the things about Ansible that makes it so useful, is its ability to gather information about a system that can then be used in the tasks you run. Because of how the NetApp modules work, this feature isn’t core to them. However, for ONTAP there is the...
