Hey folks. I hope everyone is doing well.
A real quick update on the Ansible Demo that we build several months ago for Red Hat Summit in San Francisco. The original demo was build mostly using the RAW module because at the time of the creation of the demo, NetApp had not yet published modules that would be relevant to the demo. However, that’s all changed over the past few months and now NetApp has more Ansible modules than any other storage vendor. Hats off to David Blackburn and his team for working on it and keeping the updates rolling.
With all of the changes, we decided to make a version two of the Ansible demo to showcase more NetApp modules than RAW commands. We still cannot completely move away from RAW commands as things, like collecting ONTAP version information and setting a Junction Path during a clone operation, are just not 100% available yet via a module. But at least we could incorporate a few modules to show the process.
The version 2 video is posted below, so please check it out. Additionally, a second post coming is my demo of Ansible Tower and taking the entire Ansible demo and putting it into a Tower Workflow! So while I could put the Ansible demo in one large playbook, the Tower Workflow is much cleaner and offers a lot more in terms of flexibility and scale. Check that out at well!
Thanks, as always, for checking out my site and videos, and let me know if you have any questions or comments below.
Matt