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Using Ansible for Hybrid Cloud DevOps – part 2 of 2

26 September 2019 d-nix Comments 0 Comment

This is the second part of this blog on using Ansible within a Hybrid Cloud DevOps environment. If you missed the first part, that a look here https://d-nix.nl/2019/08/using-ansible-for-hybrid-cloud-devops/. In the first part I demonstrated using Ansible and the Pure Storage FlashArray or Cloud Block Store to replicate a block storage volume from one array to the other. The way Pure handles snapshots and volume copies is very simple and flexible which makes it a very powerful product in a DevOps…

Using Ansible for Hybrid Cloud DevOps – part 1 or 2

30 August 2019 d-nix Comments 0 Comment

Update October 22nd: Changed the Ansible playbook to use the purefa_info module instead of the purefa_facts following the change as described here. Lately I’ve been spending more time on Kubernetes, since I believe that containers and serverless together provide the foundation for any Cloud Native application, that could be even bigger than VMware is for virtualisation. However when I speak with organisations on how they use containers, they basically tell me that containers are only used for new applications, created…