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Ansible Network Automation

Are you a Network Engineer looking to improve your career prospects and get better pay?
If so you need to learn Network Automation, and especially Ansible, the most popular network automation tool in use today!

What is Ansible Network Automation?

Ansible Network Automation is using Ansible (an open source IT orchestration tool from Red Hat) to perform network automation tasks. It is simple to get started, agentless and one of the most popular tools in use today for network automation!

What is Ansible?

If you have not heard of Ansible before – check out this post What is Ansible? first.

Check out this Ansible Network Automation Tutorial
How to use Ansible to backup Cisco Router configuration.

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Ansible Roles 
Ansible Hosts File explained
Upgrade Cisco IOS using Ansible 

Using Ansible for Network Automation will help network administrators or infrastructure automation engineers use network automation to centrally manage the network devices in their organisation’s networks.

Using Ansible Network Modules allow network engineers to easily perform Network Automation tasks such as sending the same commands to multiple devices and configuration management. You can be up and running in a few hours.

All the links below contain Ansible Tutorials for network automation, covering Cisco configuration management using Jinja2, Juniper & F5, Ansible Tower & Ansible AWX

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Or if you are looking for some free tutorials, keep reading.
All the posts below contain real world Ansible network automation examples and case studies you can use today to start automating your network.

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Systems today are getting more and more complex and network admins are being asked to do more with less. Using Ansible playbooks is a great way to simplify routine tasks using Devops principles. Then work towards building a business orchestration system that will configure and control the administration of your network infrastructure.

 

Ansible Tutorials for Network Engineers

Network Automation with Ansible is becoming more and more popular in the new world of Network Programmability and learning Ansible for Network Engineers is an essential skill in 2022.

Ansible is free open source software from RedHat with a very low barrier to entry enabling network engineers to run playbooks to perform simple automation tasks like cisco backup configuration files all the way up to using Jinja2 templates for large scale automation. If you want to learn more about Ansible or are looking for the best Ansible training this page is for you!

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Ansible Tower vs Ansible Automation Platform

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform vs Ansible Tower Since the release of Ansible Automation Platform the big question everyone is asking is …

Ansible Automation Platform 2

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, …

Gluware vs Ansible

Gluware review Gluware is a network automation platform that takes the headaches out of automating and orchestrating your critical network …

Palo Alto Ansible

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 …

Ansible Training Videos

Ansible Training Videos for Network Engineers All the videos below are aimed at network engineers who want to use Ansible for Network Automation, …

How to install Ansible AWX

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 …

How to perform IOS upgrade on Cisco Switch using Ansible

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 …

Ansible Network Automation Course

Ansible for Network Engineers Master Ansible and become a Network Automation Ninja with my Ansible Network Automation Course You can learn all my …

Ansible Vault Tutorial

If you have been using Ansible for a while you will have wondered if there is a way to encrypt password information? There is it’s called …

Ansible vs Python Scripts

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 …

What are the advantages of using Ansible roles?

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 …

Ansible Hosts File Example

What is the Ansible Hosts File ? The Ansible Hosts File or Ansible-Inventory file tells Ansible about the hosts that it can connect to. For Ansible to …

How to install Ansible Tower on Ubuntu 16.04

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 …

What is Ansible used for & what does Ansible do?

What is Ansible? Ansible is an open source automation platform which was purchased by Red Hat in October 2015. It is used heavily by the server admin …

Ansible IOS_Command Example

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 …

AnsibleFest London 2017 – Review

Today I attended AnsibleFest in London  – this is a paid event and one of two conferences organised by Ansible running in 2017. The second …

Where are Ansible Modules Stored?

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 …

How to Backup Cisco Config using Ansible

Cisco Router Configuration Backup using Ansible In this Ansible Cisco tutorial for beginners I will take you from the very beginning, installing …

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