Configuration Management & Automation
NetApp ONTAP and Element Ansible modules are supported via our Slack channel. REST API help is also available via our Slack channel. Get started automating on NetApp now.NetApp is proud to be a Red Hat Certified Supported Module Vendor. NetApp modules are available in our collections at https://galaxy.ansible.com/netapp. ONTAP and Element are supported modules via our Slack channel. E-Series and StorageGrid modules are provided as well at best effort. For instructions on how to get started using Ansible with NetApp see the four part series: Getting Started with NetApp and Ansible. See all Ansible Posts.
NetApp provides a rich, industry-standard REST API that lets customers automate their ONTAP storage management to ease day-to-day operations. We also provide a Python Client Library to help our end-users simplify and accelerate the development of their applications. REST APIs sample scripts are posted here. See all ONTAP REST APIs posts.
How To Guide – Setting up AWX on a single host
AWX the OpenSource upstream version of Controller (formally called Ansible Tower) has gone through a lot of changes recently. These changes have made the install and setup process much more difficult. The new install method also requires Kubernetes, which not...
Simplified management of file-security permissions with ONTAP REST APIs
NetApp® ONTAP® REST APIs are creating a break-through in everyday storage management tasks. ONTAP REST APIs reflect careful consideration of the complexity of traditional storage management through ZAPIs or CLIs. The REST APIs are more focus on simplicity and improved...
Advanced Topic: Auto Increment Volume Count
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 list?” ...
Monitor all of your ONTAP clusters with Harvest (easy mode)
Harvest2 is out now and to help celebrate we have a super easy way for you to set it up. While you can still setup your own Prometheus, Grafana, and install Harvest on your own, you don’t have to. Let me show you how (here) That Git repo has everything you need to...
Taking advantage of shared lookups – Advanced Topic
If you haven’t been made aware, playbooks are now being published to https://www.github.com/netapp-automation/ansible for anyone to use. Most of the playbooks being posted are what I call lookups. Lookups use the na_ontap_info module to pull information about one or...
Separating tasks in playbooks using tags
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...