In today’s article I wanted to share some work I have been doing recently, specifically a prototype for an on-prem Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) with DellEMC PowerStore A few years ago we used to hear a lot the “we have a cloud-first policy” and this of course meant “public cloud”. […]
This blog is the continuation of Ansible with DellEMC storage multi-part blog. In the last (5th part) of this blog series, we discussed how to install Ansible AWX / Tower in a docker container and Dell EMC Ansible modules inside the Ansible AWX / Tower container. In this […]
This blog is the continuation of Ansible with DellEMC storage multi-part blog. In this 5th part, we will discuss about Ansible Tower (using AWX) and how to install and configure the same. Overview In my posts till now you might noticed that I have only used command line option to […]
Recently while I was trying to install AWX using Ansible I came across below error on Centos. While this error was referring to missing pip package “docker-compose”, but when I tried to install the same it gave below error stating that it’s already installed. After trying multiple solutions […]
I recently came across a strange issue while installing Docker on CentOS (version 8) machine. Issue – When I tried below options to install docker on my machine I got the same error every time. Installation Commands Used Error message received Resolution – To resolve this issue, first […]
I have seen this error multiple times during my Ansible playbooks execution but always ignored it because I always got the expected result. Eventually, I wanted to get rid of any errors/warnings from my final version of the playbook and wanted to take care of this error as […]
In this post, we will discuss automating Kubernetes deployment using Ansible. In my example, I have used CentOS VMs (on VMware) for deploying Kubernetes. But technically Kubernetes deployment steps don’t differ irrespective of the platform you use. Before getting started to make sure you have Ansible server up […]
This blog post is 3rd part of REST API with DellEMC Storage blog series. In the first part of this blog series, we discussed what is REST API and different usage options Second part was about managing DellEMC PowerMax storage arrays using REST API In this post, we will discuss how you can use […]
This blog post is 2nd part of REST API with DellEMC Storage blog series. In the first part of this blog series, we discussed what is REST API and different usage options. I highly encourage you to go through the first part before you get started with this […]
This post is the first post of multi-part blog series to understand and use RestAPI with DellEMC XtremIO storage. REST API with Dell EMC REST stands for Representational State Transfer. REST provides access to resources (DellEMC XtremIO resources in our case) on a tree-like structure. REST uses HTTP/S for communication and […]