Infinidat's Ansible Collection

Links

• https://galaxy.ansible.com/infinidat/infinibox
• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/infinidat/infinibox
• https://github.com/Infinidat/ansible-infinidat-collection
• https://git.infinidat.com/PSUS/ansible-infinidat-collection

Platforms Supported

All Infindat InfiniBoxes are supported.

Prerequisites

• Ansible 2.14 or newer
• InfiniSDK 225.1.1 or newer
• Python 3.6 or newer. This is a prerequisite of Infinidat's infiniSDK Python module.

Modules

• infini_certificate: Configure a SSL certificate.
• infini_cluster: Creates, deletes or modifies host clusters.
• infini_config: Modify an Infinibox configuration.
• infini_event: Post events.
• infini_export: Creates, deletes or modifies NFS exports.
• infini_export_client: Creates, deletes or modifys NFS client(s) for existing exports.
• infini_fibre_channel_switch: Rename a fibre channel switch.
• infini_fs: Creates, deletes or modifies filesystems.
• infini_host: Creates, deletes or modifies hosts.
• infini_infinimetrics: Add or remove an Infinibox from an Infinimetrics.
• infini_map: Creates or deletes mappings of volumes to hosts.
• infini_metadata: Creates or deletes metadata for various Infinidat objects.
• infini_network_space: Creates or deletes network spaces.
• infini_notification_rule: Configure notification rules.
• infini_notification_target: Configure notification targets.
• infini_pool: Creates, deletes or modifies pools.
• infini_port: Adds or deletes fibre channel or iSCSI ports to hosts.
• infini_sso: Configure a single-sign-on (SSO) certificate.
• infini_user: Creates, deletes or modifies an InfiniBox user.
• infini_users_repository: Configure Active directory (AD) and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).
• infini_vol: Creates, deletes or modifies a volume.

Most modules also implement a "stat" state. This is used to gather information, aka status, for the resource without making any changes to it.

Installation

Install the Infinidat Ansible collection on hosts or within containers using: ansible-galaxy collection install infinidat.infibox -p ~/.ansible/collections

Complete instructions for installing collections is available at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/collections_using.html.

Ansible 2.9 or newer is required to install as a collection. That said, the collection is a tarball. Modules may be extracted and installed manually if use of an older version of Ansible is required. Adjust values in playbooks/ansible.cfg as required.

Usage

A Makefile is provided. To see the recipes available within it use make help.

Example playbooks are included in the collection:

• Main test playbooks:

  • test_create_resources.yml: A playbook that creates many resources. It also creates resources again to test idempotency.
  • test_remove_resources.yml: A playbook that in the end removes the resources created in the test_create_resources playbook. It too will test idempotency by removing resources again.

• Playbooks for testing cluster mapping:

  • test_create_map_cluster.yml: Creates a cluster with hosts and tests mapping a volume to the cluster and hosts.
  • test_remove_map_cluster.yml: Removes resouces created by its cohort.

• Playbooks for testing snapshotting:

  • test_create_snapshots.yml: Creates snapshots.
  • test_remove_snapshots.yml: Removes created snapshots.

• Playbooks for Infinibox configuration:

  • configure_array.yml: Configures many aspects of an Infinibox.

The two test playbooks also serve as a reference to the use of the modules. These exercise many modules demonstrating normal usage, idempotency and error conditions. Individual module documentation is available via ansible-doc.

Example Usage

Install the collection and cd into the collection's infi/ directory. Create an ibox yaml file in ibox_vars/. Use the example yaml file as a reference.

The --ask-vault-pass options below are only required if the ibox_vars/iboxNNNN.yaml file is encrypted using ansible-vault.

sudo apt install python3.8 python3.8-venv python3.8-distutils libffi-dev
python3.8 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
python -m pip install -U pip
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
cd playbooks/
../venv/bin/ansible-playbook --extra-vars "@../ibox_vars/iboxNNNN.yaml" --ask-vault-pass test_create_resources.yml
../venv/bin/ansible-playbook --extra-vars "@../ibox_vars/iboxNNNN.yaml" --ask-vault-pass test_remove_resources.yml
deactivate

Removal

To remove the collection, delete the collection from the path specified in the -p option during installation.

Copyrights and Licenses

• Copyright: (c) 2020, Infinidat info@infinidat.com
• GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)

Authors

The initial set of Infindat Ansible modules were written by Gregory Shulov in 2016.

Infinidat's Professional Services (USA) team extended and improved the modules in 2019. Several modules were added. Idempotency was improved.

Pull requests and feature requests

Contributions will be considered via standard Git processes. If you choose to contribute, such contribution must be permanently licensed in line with the overall project license, and copyright and all other IP rights for your contribution must be permanently assigned to Infinidat and/or its successors.