Network Automation

Ansible Roles vs Playbooks What are Ansible Roles? Ansible roles and playbooks are both essential components of Ansible’s configuration management system, but they serve different purposes and …

Over the next few days I am going to answer every one of these questions, if you have an Ansible question or want one answered below drop it in the comments – Thanks! Ansible Basics Playbooks …

Ansible AWX API Examples for Network Engineers What is an API request? An API request is how one program or system (in this case, Ansible AWX) communicates with another program or system …

What are Ansible Templates? Ansible templates are a powerful feature that allow you to dynamically generate configuration files or other text-based content on remote systems using templates, …

Ansible AWX What is AWX? Ansible AWX is the open-source version of Ansible Tower, which is now Ansible Automation Controller which is part of the Ansible Automation Platform. Both AWX and Ansible …

Ansible Precedence Order Ansible variable precedence, sometimes also referred to as variable priority or hierarchy, determines which value will be assigned to a variable when that variable is defined …

What is Ansible Lightspeed? all you need to know to get started Announced by Red Hat in May 2023 Ansible Lightspeed is a generative AI service designed by and for Ansible automators, operators, and …

What is the Ansible template module and how it can help network engineers in configuration management? The Ansible template module is a powerful tool in the Ansible configuration management system …

How to install Ansible on Ubuntu 22.04 To install Ansible on Ubuntu is very simple, you just need to add the Ansible PPA (Personal Package Archive) then update your system and then install Ansible. If …

Getting started with Ansible Introduction to Ansible Just getting started with Ansible? If you are just getting started with Ansible this post is for you, I will take you from have zero knowledge of …

Ansible Dynamic Script Example Ansible Dynamic Inventory using Python

Introduction to Ansible Playbooks An Ansible playbook can include one or more “Plays” which map a group of hosts to a set of tasks. Each play specifies the hosts that it applies to, and a …

20 Ansible Interview Questions With Ansible becoming a must have skill for anyone in IT now I thought I would put together this short list of Ansible Interview Questions which should help you answer …

If you have installed Ansible and are using ZSH and when you run ansible –version you get command not found Ansible – this was my fix When you install ZSH some path variables are changed …

What are host_vars and group_vars in Ansible? Variables or VARS are used to input data or a variable into a place in a playbook instead of manually entering the value in multiple places. The main …

Ansible Tutorial for Beginners What is Ansible? Ansible is an open source tool tool that helps you automate IT tasks, it was purchased by Red Hat in October 2015 and is used for automation of Linux …

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform vs Ansible Tower The main difference between Ansible Tower and Ansible Automation Platform is that Ansible Tower is an older version of the software which has now …

What is Ansible Automation Platform? Ansible Tower has been the GUI front end version of Ansible for many years and if you wanted to provide logging, security and much more when operating Ansible, …

Gluware review Gluware is a network automation platform that takes the headaches out of automating and orchestrating your critical network infrastructure. Gluware provides a code free option to …

Palo Alto Ansible Playbook Example If you are looking for a Palo Alto Ansible Playbook you are in the right place!In this post I am going to take you through all the steps you need to start getting …

Ansible Videos for Network Engineers All the videos below are aimed at network engineers who want to use Ansible for Network Automation, however if you are looking for some basic Ansible Training a …

Install Ansible AWX on Ubuntu 20.04 using Kubernetes AWX is the upstream open source version of Ansible Tower, you can install it for free and use it for free forever. To install on Kubernetes I will …

Have you got 100’s or 1000’s of Cisco switches or routers to perform a software upgrade on? Looking for a simple way to upgrade Cisco IOS remotely? Or perform the task without manually …

Ansible Vault Tutorial for beginners If you have been using Ansible for a while you will have wondered if there is a way to encrypt your sensitive data or password information? There is it’s …

Ansible or Python? In the world of networking right now there are many discussions about which network automation tools are the best. But one of the most asked questions is Ansible or Python? The main …

One of the main features of using Ansible for Network Automation is the use of roles, and there are many advantages of using Ansible roles which I will describe below. When you start to build up a …

Ansible Inventory File What is an Ansible Inventory? The Ansible Inventory File defines all the hosts and groups of hosts that you want to automate with Ansible. Also called the Ansible Hosts File it …

If you just just like watching a video the whole process is shown in the video below. How to Install Ansible Tower on Ubuntu 16.04 Video If you want the detailed steps in written format – keep …

What is Ansible Software used for and what does it do? Ansible is an open source automation platform which was purchased by Red Hat in October 2015. It is used heavily by the server admin community …

In this Ansible IOS_Command Example post I will share a simple Ansible Playbook example that will write an ACL to a Cisco Switch. This playbook will work equally well on any Cisco device and once you …

Today I attended AnsibleFest in London  – this is a paid event and one of two conferences organised by Ansible running in 2017. For a list of network automation conferences in 2024 check this …

I had an issue with one of my Ansible modules recently and needed to make a change so I needed to locate the Python module. It was onto google searching “Where are Ansbile Modules Stored?” …