Repository associated with Pure and Ansible livestream workshop on March 22, 2022

Link to event is here.

This demo uses the WWT on-demand Pure Ansible Automation Lab hosted on WWT's digital platform.

In this lab we will get familiar with Ansible concepts while automation Pure Storage operational tasks. At the end of this lab, you'll have learned how to:

• gather information about a Pure Flash Array
• configure and manage volumes
• configure and manage hosts and host groups
• configure and manage volume snapshots
• Mount a volume as a datastore in vSphere
• Retrieve data from an outside source using an Ansible lookup plugin
• Use assertions to verify input data
• Use ansible to build documentation about our environment

The environment we will be automating looks like this:

Once you've accessed the lab, from vscode open a terminal window. Terminal>New Terminal

Clone this repository down to the local machine

git clone https://github.com/wwt/pure_ansible_workshop.git

To install the latest version of Ansible and other python dependencies:

pip install -r dependencies/requirements.txt

To install the latest modules for Pure and VMware:

ansible-galaxy install -r dependencies/requirements.yml

Consult the lab guide published with the on-demand lab for credentials.

Open the ansible-demo directory to view playbooks. They are in numbered order of what is shown in the livestream.