by David Blackwell | Apr 2, 2019 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, ONTAP, Playbooks
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...
by Diane Patton | Mar 26, 2019 | Containers, DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, ONTAP, Trident
Kubernetes makes managing applications very easy and flexible. Pods can be deployed anywhere, on your local PC for testing, on-prem or in the cloud at anytime. Kubernetes can guarantee a certain number of pods are deployed and running at any given time, and may even...
by David Blackwell | Mar 5, 2019 | Configuration Management
There is a lot of buzz around DevOps these days often leading to confusion. I hear people asking, “What is DevOps?”, “How do I do DevOps?”, “What do I need for DevOps?”. Everyone needs to go faster these days. AWS puts out over 10,000 changes a DAY! A DevOps...
by David Blackwell | Jan 9, 2019 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, Jenkins, ONTAP
Sites trying to move into a DevOps model often want to implement a Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Deployment (CD) process. This can be challenging without any frames of reference. For our Ansible development we use such a process and want to share that with...
by David Blackwell | Dec 11, 2018 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, ONTAP, Playbooks
One of the things about Ansible that makes it so useful, is its ability to gather information about a system that can then be used in the tasks you run. Because of how the NetApp modules work, this feature isn’t core to them. However, for ONTAP there is the...
