The Ansible Modules for Dell Technologies (Dell) PowerStore allow Data Center and IT administrators to use RedHat Ansible to automate and orchestrate the configuration and management of Dell PowerStore arrays.
The capabilities of the Ansible modules are managing volumes, volume groups, vCenters, hosts, host groups, snapshots, snapshot rules, replication rules, replication sessions, protection policies, file systems, NAS servers, SMB shares, user and tree quotas, file system snapshots, NFS exports, Clusters, Networks, Local users, Jobs, Roles, Certificates, Remote systems, security configuration, DNS server, Email notification destination, NTP server, Remote support configuration, Remote support contacts, SMTP configuration, LDAP accounts, LDAP domain configuration, storage containers, File DNS, File interface, File NIS, NFS server, SMB Server, Service config and SNMP Manager. It also allows gathering high level info from the array. The options available for each are list, show, create, modify and delete. These tasks can be executed by running simple playbooks written in yaml syntax. The modules are written so that all the operations are idempotent, so making multiple identical requests has the same effect as making a single request.
Ansible Modules | PowerStore Version | SDK version | Python version | Ansible |
---|---|---|---|---|
v3.6.0 | 2.9.x 3.2.x 3.5.x 3.6.x 4.0.x |
3.3.0 | 3.9.x 3.10.x 3.11.x 3.12.x |
2.15 2.16 2.17 |
The installation and execution steps of Ansible modules for Dell PowerStore can be found here
Refer the example playbooks on how the collection can be used for modules.
The following tests are done on ansible-powerstore collection
Refer Support documenetation for more information on the support from Dell Technologies.
Ansible Modules for Dell Technologies PowerStore follows Semantic Versioning.
New version will be release regularly if significant changes (bug fix or new feature) are made in the collection.
Released code versions are located on "release" branches with names of the form "release-x.y.z" where x.y.z corresponds to the version number. More information on branching strategy followed can be found here.
Ansible Modules for Dell Technologies PowerStore deprecation cycle is aligned with that of Ansible.
See change logs for more information on what is new in the releases.
The modules are written in such a way that all requests are idempotent and hence fault-tolerant. It essentially means that the result of a successfully performed request is independent of the number of times it is executed.
The Ansible collection for PowerStore is released and licensed under the GPL-3.0 license. See LICENSE for the full terms.