The Ansible Tower development teams are bringing in some massive changes to the platform. These changes effect both AWX Tower and Red Hat Ansible Platform. The most notable change is the that the GUI is getting a face lift. All the sections are still there except...
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...
Sometimes it is useful to create a single playbook or role that does multiple steps, but not steps you want to run every time. You can use ‘tags’ to only include or exclude certain tasks in a playbook. To look at this concept I will use a playbook for creating...
One of the top requirements for today’s IT industry is automation with industry-standard techniques. NetApp is one of the first companies to create its own proprietary APIs (called Zephyr APIs or ONTAPI). NetApp created client libraries so that users could consume...
