Technical Report

Demostrating Ansible in Lab On Demand

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Introduction

2 Setting Up the Demo Environment

3 Ansible Ad-hoc Commands

4 Ansible Playbooks

  4.1	Configuring cluster1 using the Ansible Playbook

  4.2	The Idempotent Nature of Ansible

  4.3	Using Ansible to Deploy Trident

5 Ansible Roles

  5.1	Configuring cluster1 using the Ansible Playbook and NetApp Roles

Appendix A: Alternative Method to Installing Ansible

Appendix B: Configuration Files Used in the Demo