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...
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...
by Bala RameshBabu | Jun 28, 2019 | Containers, DevOps, Trident
As you would have already heard, the 19.07 Alpha release is packed with some cool new features, of which Volume Snapshots is an important one. Trident 19.07 Alpha is designed to provide on-demand Volume Snapshots and support the creation of Persistent Volumes...
by Jacob Andathethu | Jun 28, 2019 | Containers, DevOps, Trident
Let me introduce the all new CSI Trident, now available with Trident 19.07 Alpha! The Container Storage Interface (CSI) provides a standard to enable provisioners to talk with multiple orchestrators. This is a community effort driven by the Cloud Native Computing...
by David Blackwell | Apr 2, 2019 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, ONTAP, Playbooks
I discussed adding NetApp roles and making them available in this post. If you haven’t read that one, please take a moment to read it as it covers the installation and configuration settings to make these roles usable. Much like the Cluster Config role allowed for...
