by David Blackwell | Aug 5, 2019 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, ONTAP, Playbooks, Use Cases
“Unexpected Error”. If you have been using the NetApp Ansible modules and seen this error, you know it can be frustrating as it doesn’t give any useful information. This error is 99.9% of the time one of the following four issues, and I will do my best to explain how...
by David Blackwell | Jul 17, 2019 | Ansible, Automation, Cluster, Configuration Management, DevOps, ONTAP, Operations, Playbooks
In all the examples we have shared so far, we haven’t been using an inventory file; instead we are simply setting ‘hosts: localhost’. A question I get asked from time to time is “How can a playbook be run against multiple clusters without having to use outside...
by David Blackwell | May 22, 2019 | Ansible, Element Software, ONTAP, thePub, Trident, Webinar
DevOps – are you sick of hearing about it yet? Ask three different people what it is and you’ll get three different responses. The fact is, it’s HARD. There is no silver bullet to implementing DevOps, there is no one person who can do it, there is no one solution that...
by David Blackwell | Apr 22, 2019 | Ansible, Configuration Management, NFS, Operations
With Red Hat Summit fast approaching let’s take a look at a pair of roles today. In previous posts I have covered day-0 operations with the Cluster Config role, and day-1 operations with the Vserver Create role. Now I will cover the repeated task of creating...
by David Blackwell | Apr 2, 2019 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, ONTAP, Playbooks
I discussed adding NetApp roles and making them available in this post. If you haven’t read that one, please take a moment to read it as it covers the installation and configuration settings to make these roles usable. Much like the Cluster Config role allowed for...
