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...
by David Blackwell | Jan 7, 2020 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, Docker, thePub
Ansible is a powerhouse of configuration management and can power a lot of automation but add Tower to that and you add so much more. Using Ansible Tower you get Role Based Access Control (RBAC), push button automation, centralized logging and a host of other...
by Joseph Christianson | Nov 12, 2019 | Containers, DevOps, NKS, thePub
In this series of posts, we’re covering various aspects of getting started with building a CI/CD Pipeline using NKS with NetApp HCI. In case you missed Part 1 and Part 2. In this post, we’ll configure the Jenkins deployment that was deployed in part 2,...
by David Blackwell | Nov 5, 2019 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, Playbooks, thePub
Recently, I have been asked many times how Ansible can help maintain a naming convention when creating volumes, so today I will show a quick example of variable building. Let’s say I want my volume name to be <vserver>_<aggr>_<volume name>, and I...
by Joseph Christianson | Oct 24, 2019 | DevOps, Jenkins, Kubernetes, NKS, SolidFire, thePub, Trident
Continued in this series of, we’re covering various aspects of getting started with working with NKS on NetApp HCI. In case you missed Part 1. In this post, we’ll be covering how to deploy an application to an existing cluster, using the curated Helm...
by Joseph Christianson | Oct 15, 2019 | DevOps
Welcome! In this new series of posts, we’ll be covering how to get started with working with NKS on NetApp HCI. In this series of posts describing an example DevOps pipeline infrastructure, we’ll be covering how to get started with cloud native DevOps on...
