Simple OpenStack Glance Configuration with S3 and Cinder Image-Volume Cache

A simple review of configuring OpenStack Glance to use S3 object stores combined with Cinder Image-Volume cache.

Introducing Ansible and Pure to Empower Live Application Data Migration

How to perform a live migration of an applications data disks from one storage array to another using Ansible.

Manage Drift with Ansible

Managing and alerting infrastructure drift in Pure Storage systems using Ansible

Storage Provisioning on Pure with Ansible

Simple volume provisioning and teardown on a Pure Storage FlashArray using Ansible

Pure Storage Ansible Execution Environments – Part 2

‌‌‌Part 2: Containerised Ansible A lot has changed in the Ansible world recently. The latest being the introduction of Execution Environments. In this series of posts, I try to decipher what they are and what Pure Storage is doing in this space. In the previous post, I recently discussed the major changes in Ansible that […]

Pure Storage Ansible Execution Environments – Part 1

‌‌‌Part 1: The Back Story A lot has changed in the Ansible world recently. The latest being the introduction of Execution Environments. In this series of posts, I will cover what they are, how to use them and what Pure Storage has made available, but before we dig deep, let’s look in this first post […]