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...
A data scientist will often modify their training dataset many times as they iterate through different training runs, using different normalization techniques, hyperparameters, etc. This can become a problem if the data scientist ever needs to revert back to a...
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...
The NetApp Data Science Toolkit is a Python program that makes it simple for data scientists and data engineers to perform advanced data management tasks. This Python program can function as either a command line utility or a library of functions that can be imported...
