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.
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?” ...
Trident E/EF-Series Storage Driver Maintenance Notice
Trident is NetApp’s open-source storage orchestrator for containerized workloads (Docker and Kubernetes distributions), encompassing support for a range of NetApp storage services and platforms on-premises and in the cloud. Today this includes: ONTAP systems,...
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...
Tackling diverse workloads with BeeGFS in Kubernetes
The BeeGFS CSI Driver enables data scientists to build Kubernetes AI pipelines capable of provisioning and consuming BeeGFS file system storage. But applications in different pipeline steps often use different IO patterns and require different storage characteristics....