One of the most requested features for our Ansible modules has been the ability to not have to use username/password authentication. We are happy to announce that with the release of the NetApp ONTAP Ansible collection 20.6.0 the ability to use certificates for...
Active IQ is a digital advisor providing insights into NetApp environments allowing the proactive care and optimization of those systems. The web-based dashboard (aiq.netapp.com) makes it easy to monitor your systems and provides the steps to remediate any potential...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
