by David Blackwell | Jan 10, 2020 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, thePub
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...
by David Blackwell | Jan 7, 2020 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, Docker, thePub
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...
by David Blackwell | Nov 5, 2019 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, Playbooks, thePub
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...
by David Blackwell | Sep 18, 2019 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, ONTAP, Playbooks, thePub
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...
by David Blackwell | Sep 17, 2019 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, Playbooks, thePub
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...
