by Joseph Christianson | Nov 12, 2019 | Automation, 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...
by David Blackwell | Sep 18, 2019 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, ONTAP, Playbooks, thePub
Ansible has asked us to change the name of one of our modules. The module ‘na_ontap_gather_facts’ will be known simply as ‘na_ontap_info’ from Ansible release 2.9 and onwards. The gather_facts version is being deprecated but will still work in the 2.9 release so...
by David Blackwell | Sep 17, 2019 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, Playbooks, thePub
With the release of Ansible 2.9, Red Hat will officially be introducing Collections. To quote Red Hat documentation “Collections are a distribution format for Ansible content. They can be used to package and distribute playbooks, roles, modules, and plugins. You can...
