by Jacob Andathethu | Jun 9, 2020 | DevOps, REST API
Understanding create and retrieve operations using Python client library In the previous blog post, we discussed how to quickly set up and start using the NetApp® ONTAP® REST API Python client library (PCL) to start automating your storage. This post, Part 2,...
by Jacob Andathethu | Jun 9, 2020 | DevOps, ONTAP, REST API
Getting Started… This three-part blog series describes the details of how to use netapp-ontap Python client libraries for REST API provided with NetApp® ONTAP® 9.6 and later for ease of automation. It discusses how to install and configure the netapp-ontap...
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 | Apr 28, 2020 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, thePub
QUICK TIP Since the arrival of Collections, docs.ansible.com is no longer an up to date source of documentation for the NetApp modules. However, there is still an easy way to see the documentation, complete with examples, for the modules in a collection. Ansible...
by Jacob Andathethu | Apr 23, 2020 | DevOps
To help customers start using and adopting the ONTAP REST API, we are happy to announce the availability of sample Python scripts that are now on GitHub. These scripts demonstrate how administrators can use APIs to automate their NetApp® ONTAP® storage. ONTAP 9.6 and...
by Matt Trudewind | Apr 3, 2020 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, ONTAP, thePub
It is very important to ensure that your data is able to meet your organization’s security objectives. ONTAP includes many security capabilities and features. However, since each organization’s security objectives are different, not all of the security...
