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 Joseph Christianson | Oct 24, 2019 | DevOps, Jenkins, Kubernetes, NKS, SolidFire, thePub, Trident
Continued in this series of, we’re covering various aspects of getting started with working with NKS on NetApp HCI. In case you missed Part 1. In this post, we’ll be covering how to deploy an application to an existing cluster, using the curated Helm...
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...
