Up until now YAML aliases were the only way to avoid having to retype out all the connection lines for NetApp ONTAP modules, so a playbook looked something like this: --- - hosts: localhost collections: - netapp.ontap vars: login: &login hostname:...
Developers and data scientists frequently use NetApp's volume cloning technology to clone development workspaces almost instantaneously. This can lead to operational challenges as end users often don't have superuser privileges and, thus, are not able to run a mount...
The Harvest team is happy to announce the release of 21.11. In preparing for when ZAPI is removed from ONTAP, the Harvest team has begun the process of adding REST access to the collectors. This is an important feature to add so that you can continue to utilize and...
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...
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?” ...