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Using Ansible for Hybrid Cloud DevOps – part 2 of 2

Using Ansible for Hybrid Cloud DevOps – part 2 of 2

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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…

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Using Ansible for Hybrid Cloud DevOps – part 1 or 2

Using Ansible for Hybrid Cloud DevOps – part 1 or 2

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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…

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Installing a multinode Kubernetes cluster using Kubespray

Installing a multinode Kubernetes cluster using Kubespray

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Introduction So you’ve started on your Kubernetes journey and you’ve probably started with something like Minikube (https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/minikube/) on your laptop. Moving you containers to production however, requires a multinode Kubernetes cluster. To setup such a cluster requires some form of automation for both the deployment and maintenance of the Kubernetes cluster. For that you can use Kubespray, allowing you deoploy and maintain you Kubernetes cluster. Kubespray is an Open Source project based on Ansible to maintain your Kubernetes cluster. While…

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Upgrading Pure Service Orchestrator using Helm

Upgrading Pure Service Orchestrator using Helm

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A new version of the Pure Service Orchestrator is out and obviously you can’t wait to start using all those new goodies! But how do you go about updating your environment? This is actually quite simple, since all the heavy lifting is done by Helm, the package manager that is used to install, upgrade and maintain the Pure Service Orchestrator (PSO). You can watch me do the upgrade in the video below, or just keep on reading below. Show current…

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Installing the Pure Service Orchestrator using Helm

Installing the Pure Service Orchestrator using Helm

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Container technology was born in the cloud and one of the great things about the cloud is that you have all kind of services available to you. Particularly for containers in the public cloud, you can just request persistent file or block storage, as these services are provided by your cloud provider. However once you run Kubernetes on-prem you now need to provide those services by yourself. However you want to keep the developer first / Infrastructure-as-Code advantages that containers…

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