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 Mike Oglesby | Apr 3, 2020 | AI/ML, Kubernetes, thePub, Trident
Jupyter Notebook is an open source web application targeted towards data scientists and data engineers that enables users to create wiki-like documents, called notebooks, that contain blocks of live code paired with descriptive text. These code blocks can be executed...
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...
by Joseph Kandatilparambil | Apr 2, 2020 | DevOps, thePub
Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) is a simple interface for user space programs to export a filesystem to the Linux kernel. In this example we will mount an S3 bucket from StorageGRID to an Ubuntu Linux machine. After the setup is complete, we should be able to ingest...
by David Blackwell | Mar 20, 2020 | Ansible, DevOps, thePub
Workflow Templates link multiple Job Templates together. These Job Templates don’t even have to share inventory, Playbooks or even permissions. Furthermore, the links can be conditional. For example: If job template A succeeds, job template B automatically executes...
