Introduction

This repository contains a number of simple Ansible playbooks using both the PUREFA and PUREFB modules to issue commands to Pure Storage FlashArrays or FlashBlades.

The following items are assumed by all playbooks:

• The user has a working knowledge of Ansible and Ansible Playbooks
• Minimum Ansible version is denoted in the README or the actual playbooks.
• Your Pure Storage FlashArray or FlashBlade should be accessible from your local Ansible host.
• You have obtained a privileged API token from the Pure Storage FlashArray or FlashBlade that will be used by the playbooks.

FlashArray and FlashBlade modules are natively included in Ansible and are obtained by installing the latest Ansible package:

# pip install ansible

FlashArray (incl. Cloud Block Store) Playbooks

Customizing Playbooks for your environment

Playbooks must contain the following variables:

• fa_url
• api_token

where fa_url is the Management VIP of your FlashArray and api_token is obtained from a FlashArray for specific users using the GUI interface in Settings -> Users and select Show API Token... from the 3 elipses on the right side of the display, next to the user you require the token for. You may also get the api_token by executing the following Purity command after using SSH to log directly onto the array:

# pureadmin list <username> --api-token --expose

Note: You can only expose the API token for the username you re logged in as on both the GUI and the CLI.

It is adviseable to use these variables per play when working with multiple FlashArrays, however you may also use environment variables to set these values externally to playbooks so they are not needed in the playbook. This is useful when configuring only one FlashArray.

The environment varaibles are:

• PUREFA_URL
• PUREFA_API

FlashBlade Playbooks

Customizing Playbooks for your environment

Playbooks must contain the following variables:

• fb_url
• api_token

where fb_url is the Management VIP of your FlashBlade and api_token is obtained from a FlashBlade for specific users by running the following Purity command after using SSH to log directly onto the FlashBlade:

# pureadmin list <username> --api-token --expose

Note: You can only expose the API token for the username you re logged in as.

It is adviseable to use these variables per play when working with multiple FlashBlades, however you may also use environment variables to set these values externally to playbooks so they are not needed in the playbook. This is useful when configuring only one FlashArray.

The environment varaibles are:

• PUREFB_URL
• PUREFB_API

Running Playbooks

After modifying your playbooks you can execute them by using:

$ ansible-playbook <playbook-name>.yaml

Support Statement

These Ansible Playbooks are a GitHub contribution from Pure Storage Customers, Architects, System Engineers, and Developers. As it is open-sourced, support and answers to enquiry are provided under Best Efforts support by the Pure Portfolio Solutions Group, Open Source Integrations team. For feature requests and bugs please use GitHub Issues. We will address these as soon as we can, but there are no specific SLAs. In Addition, Pure Storage provide Professional Services to assist in it's implementation and integration according to specific user requirement.