Configuration Management & Automation
NetApp ONTAP and Element are community supported for Ansible via our Slack channel. Get started with Ansible on NetApp now.NetApp is proud to be one of only six Red Hat Certified Supported Module Vendors. NetApp modules are included with Ansible, with version 2.7 having our most current release. ONTAP and Element are Community supported modules via our Slack channel. E-Series modules are provided as well at best effort. For instructions on how to get started using Ansible with NetApp see the five part series: Getting Started with NetApp and Ansible.
Module Documentation in Collections
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...
Harden Your ONTAP Environment With The NetApp Ansible Security Role
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 features within...
Ansible Tower Workflows
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...
Documentation in the Collection Age
Normally docs.ansible.com is where you would go to get all the documentation for the modules you are using. Currently this information is not updated from collections. As a result it is often out of date. Red Hat has said they are making changes so that the URL...
Working with AWX Tower – Adding a Project and a first Template.
This is the third installment in my series on ‘Working with AWX Tower’. I have already covered installing AWX Tower and setting up credentials for working with an ONTAP cluster previously. Now I am going to show you how to add a Project and the first Template from...
Preparing Tower for Use by Creating a Credential Type and Credential
In a previous post I talked about how to install and run AWX Tower in a Docker stack. In this post I will continue the Tower setup by creating both the Credential Type for ONTAP and a Credential for a Cluster. Let’s start with creating a Credential Type. Log in to...