NetApp Ansible Demo

Forked from https://github.com/schmots1/insight-ansible

You can use this Docker container to test these playbooks https://hub.docker.com/r/pixelchrome/ntap-ansible-container

Example Playbooks how to setup a new ONTAP Cluster

Clone this repository

$ git clone https://github.com/pixelchrome/technologie-forum-ansible.git

01_setup_cluster.yml

Basic setup of a new ONTAP Cluster

Tasks

• Add Licenses
• Assign unowned disks
• Create Aggregates

This playbook asks for the password of the ONTAP system. Just to show how a user prompt works.

$ ansible-playbook 01_setup_cluster.yml

Add passwords.yml with ansible-vault

NetApp uses http or https communication. This requires a username and password combination to run each task of a playbook. This can be set with variable prompt, but thats not very useful for automation.

$ echo 'password: NetApp01234' > vars/password.yml
$ ansible-vault encrypt vars/password.yml
$ cat vars/password.yml 
$ANSIBLE_VAULT;1.1;AES256
64633334303139343730323062323663343035663736643538356638313862353332386166353439
3537376237323831393838356430386464346533366362360a396561373133336166616637396336
37356263373031666636363339393766656663376564383330356632616630363062383762373064
3739643266346136350a323261323565346330306661373165316539613430386564623536353532
61373361343936663932626266363438656437653066323933393066626538646264

02_setup_svm.yml

Create a NFS SVM

Tasks

• Create SVM
• Create the Network Interface
• Setup NFS
• Create default export policy

Run this playbook. Provide the encryption password of the password.yml file via prompt.

$ ansible-playbook --vault-id @prompt 02_setup_svm.yml

03_setup_export_volume.yml

Export a Volume

Tasks

• Create Volume
• Create export policy
• Setup export rules

Write the password into the file decrypt and run the playbook without any further input

$ echo demo > decrypt
$ ansible-playbook --vault-id decrypt 03_setup_export_volume.yml

04_host.yml

Mount on a Server/Host the NFS Share

Tasks

• Install nfs-utils
• Mount the NFS Share and add to /etc/fstab

Run the playbook with a comma separated host list. Therefore you must add the comma at the end!

$ ansible-playbook 04_setup_host.yml -i 192.168.11.225,

Bonus :)

Cleanup of the above 9*_cleanup_*.yml

Links and Notes

• This demo is inspired and forked from https://github.com/schmots1/insight-ansible
• netapp.io - Ansible
• Getting Started with NetApp and Ansible
• Can you keep a secret