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...
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...
Sometimes it is useful to create a single playbook or role that does multiple steps, but not steps you want to run every time. You can use ‘tags’ to only include or exclude certain tasks in a playbook. To look at this concept I will use a playbook for creating...
One of the top requirements for today’s IT industry is automation with industry-standard techniques. NetApp is one of the first companies to create its own proprietary APIs (called Zephyr APIs or ONTAPI). NetApp created client libraries so that users could consume...
