There are sites that name all or most of their volumes with the same base name. (Share001, Share002, Share003 or Home001, Home002, Home003). A common question I get asked all the time is , “How to use Ansible to auto create the next X number of volumes in the...
Sometimes it is useful to create a single playbook or role that does multiple steps, but not steps you want to run every time. You can use ‘tags’ to only include or exclude certain tasks in a playbook. To look at this concept I will use a playbook for creating...
Ansible is a simple yet powerful IT automation engine that helps users automates day-to-day repetitive tasks. Adding Ansible Towers or AWX to this powerful engine will give users role-based access to perform tasks and leverage other features like scheduling, creating...
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...
The first release of the Ansible Modules for StorageGRID is centered around automation and orchestration of Day-1 and Day-2 operations. If you’ve been following the many Ansible blog posts here at netapp.io, you will already be familiar with how Ansible makes it easy...
