by David Blackwell | Jul 8, 2020 | Ansible, Automation, Cluster, Configuration Management, DevOps, ONTAP, Operations, Playbooks, thePub
This previous post showed how to setup and use SSL certificates for authentication instead of a username/password combination. The post mentioned that this can be used with Tower as well. This new post will show the minor updates to a Projects repository that are...
by David Blackwell | Jun 25, 2020 | Ansible, Automation, Cluster, Configuration Management, DevOps, ONTAP, Playbooks, thePub
One of the most requested features for our Ansible modules has been the ability to not have to use username/password authentication. We are happy to announce that with the release of the NetApp ONTAP Ansible collection 20.6.0 the ability to use certificates for...
by David Blackwell | May 26, 2020 | Ansible, Automation, Cluster, Configuration Management, ONTAP, Operations, Playbooks, thePub
Active IQ is a digital advisor providing insights into NetApp environments allowing the proactive care and optimization of those systems. The web-based dashboard (aiq.netapp.com) makes it easy to monitor your systems and provides the steps to remediate any potential...
by David Blackwell | May 15, 2020 | Ansible, Automation, Cluster, Configuration Management, DevOps, ONTAP, Operations, Playbooks, thePub, Use Cases
Fully automated Day-0 setup is a goal of the “next-gen” datacenter. This is 99.9% possible with ONTAP and Ansible. The only console work that needs to be done is to assign a password to the ‘admin’ account and to make note of the DHCP address assigned to the nodes,...
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...
