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Gather_fact Is Now Just Info
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...
Its’s All Coming Together Nicely
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...
Running a Playbook Against Multiple ONTAP Clusters
In all the examples we have shared so far, we haven’t been using an inventory file; instead we are simply setting ‘hosts: localhost’. A question I get asked from time to time is “How can a playbook be run against multiple clusters without having to use outside...
Using On-Demand Snapshots with CSI Trident
As you would have already heard, the 19.07 Alpha release is packed with some cool new features, of which Volume Snapshots is an important one. Trident 19.07 Alpha is designed to provide on-demand Volume Snapshots and support the creation of Persistent Volumes...
All New CSI Trident!
Let me introduce the all new CSI Trident, now available with Trident 19.07 Alpha! The Container Storage Interface (CSI) provides a standard to enable provisioners to talk with multiple orchestrators. This is a community effort driven by the Cloud Native Computing...
Creating Vservers is Even Easier with Roles
I discussed adding NetApp roles and making them available in this post. If you haven’t read that one, please take a moment to read it as it covers the installation and configuration settings to make these roles usable. Much like the Cluster Config role allowed for...