DevOps
DevOps Solutions: Deploy the right foundation for application development, no matter where your data lives.Delivering solutions to support a DevOps culture can be complex but with the right toolset operations teams can deliver developers a simple, faster, more flexible way to access their applications and the data the fuels them. By breaking DevOps down into key capabilities that IT needs to deliver, organizations can deliver the right service levels across disparate data sources and infrastructure types – seamlessly. Learn more about solutions for code and binary management, CI/CD and analytics solutions.
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 As a result it is often out of date.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...
Getting Started using Tower with AWX
Ansible is a powerhouse of configuration management and can power a lot of automation but add Tower to that and you add so much more. Using Ansible Tower you get Role Based Access Control (RBAC), push button automation, centralized logging and a host of other...
A rose_aggr1_test_vol By Any Other Name
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...