by Veena Kannan | Jun 18, 2019 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, ONTAP, ONTAP Select
Businesses want simple, automated ways to manage their complex data infrastructure. Ansible makes this easier with features like modules, roles and playbooks. This post discusses the two new Ansible roles that have been published for the ONTAP Select product to help...
by Aubrey Muhlach | May 22, 2019 | Ansible, Element Software, ONTAP, thePub, Trident, Webinar
DevOps – are you sick of hearing about it yet? Ask three different people what it is and you’ll get three different responses. The fact is, it’s HARD. There is no silver bullet to implementing DevOps, there is no one person who can do it, there is no one solution that...
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 25, 2019 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, ONTAP, Playbooks
Ansible makes the management of NetApp systems easy. Sometimes, though, groups don’t have the time or inclination to create their own playbooks. Ansible has a solution that can ease this issue, it is called roles. An Ansible role is a collection of playbooks,...
