Organizations are exploiting new use cases that that require infrastructure outside traditional datacenters and public cloud. The industry refers to these locations as “the Edge”. This is, in turn, producing vast amounts of data at these remote locations and in many cases this data needs to processed in […]
With the advent of public cloud organisations of all sizes are more and more looking to implement the same agile operational models that the hyper-scale cloud providers offer. Following that line of thought, the industry has coined the expression “cloud is not a destination but an operational model”. […]
In the previous post I covered how to install the Cisco Ansible modules and provided some lessons learned. Today we will do the same with Brocade. This article consists of 4 sections: Installation of PyFOS library Installation of Brocade Ansible modules Sample playbooks 1 – Installation of PyFOS […]
While most of the vendors and their platforms (including DellEMC) are having Ansible modules published, but there are instances where functionality you’re trying to use isn’t covered in the available module or simply modules aren’t available at all. In such situations you’ve no choice than using Ansible URI […]
In this video we show how to leverage a popular Service Management tool such as ServiceNow as well as Ansible to allow end-users to consume on-prem physical IT resources in a cloud-like fully automated fashion from both the web interface and their mobile app. When people talk about […]
In the next article we will explore how to use Ansible to manage Brocade switches. But today we will talk briefly about the REST API. This is important because under the covers the Brocade Ansible modules use the REST API. This helps you (as it helped me) to […]
Python has a great package manager called “pip”. I guess if you have come to this page you don’t need many introductions. As we know it is a good practice to deploy Python applications in their own virtual environments. When running a virtual environment we typically have to […]
I recently got access to a Cisco MDS switch in the lab and I had the opportunity to play with it before it went into production. In particular it was a Connectrix MDS 9396T, which is a 32GB FC switch with up to 96 ports. The setup was […]
This blog is the continuation of Ansible with DellEMC storage multi-part blog. In the last (6th Part) of this blog series, we discussed how to prepare Ansible Tower/AWX with Dell EMC storage credentials. In this blog post, we will install Dell EMC PowerStore collection on Ansible AWX and go […]
In the last few weeks I have spent some time creating a small emulator of the DellEMC PowerStore’s REST API. This was done for some educational requirement, but it might benefit other people out there, hence I am making it public The emulator provides: 2 API calls to […]