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...
by Matt Trudewind | Apr 3, 2020 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, ONTAP, thePub
It is very important to ensure that your data is able to meet your organization’s security objectives. ONTAP includes many security capabilities and features. However, since each organization’s security objectives are different, not all of the security...
by David Blackwell | Mar 20, 2020 | Ansible, DevOps, thePub
Workflow Templates link multiple Job Templates together. These Job Templates don’t even have to share inventory, Playbooks or even permissions. Furthermore, the links can be conditional. For example: If job template A succeeds, job template B automatically executes...
by David Blackwell | Mar 10, 2020 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, thePub
Normally docs.ansible.com is where you would go to get all the documentation for the modules you are using. Currently this information is not updated from collections. As a result it is often out of date. Red Hat has said they are making changes so that the URL...
by David Blackwell | Jan 29, 2020 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, ONTAP, thePub
This is the third installment in my series on ‘Working with AWX Tower’. I have already covered installing AWX Tower and setting up credentials for working with an ONTAP cluster previously. Now I am going to show you how to add a Project and the first Template from...
by David Blackwell | Jan 10, 2020 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, thePub
In a previous post I talked about how to install and run AWX Tower in a Docker stack. In this post I will continue the Tower setup by creating both the Credential Type for ONTAP and a Credential for a Cluster. Let’s start with creating a Credential Type. Log in to...
