Up until now YAML aliases were the only way to avoid having to retype out all the connection lines for NetApp ONTAP modules, so a playbook looked something like this: --- - hosts: localhost collections: - netapp.ontap vars: login: &login hostname:...
AWX the OpenSource upstream version of Controller (formally called Ansible Tower) has gone through a lot of changes recently. These changes have made the install and setup process much more difficult. The new install method also requires Kubernetes, which not...
NetApp® ONTAP® REST APIs are creating a break-through in everyday storage management tasks. ONTAP REST APIs reflect careful consideration of the complexity of traditional storage management through ZAPIs or CLIs. The REST APIs are more focus on simplicity and improved...
There are sites that name all or most of their volumes with the same base name. (Share001, Share002, Share003 or Home001, Home002, Home003). A common question I get asked all the time is , "How to use Ansible to auto create the next X number of volumes in the list?” ...
If you haven’t been made aware, playbooks are now being published to https://www.github.com/netapp-automation/ansible for anyone to use. Most of the playbooks being posted are what I call lookups. Lookups use the na_ontap_info module to pull information about one or...
