Ansible Automation Platform
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, …
Ansible Network Automation Tutorials & Training
Network Automation with Ansible is becoming more and more popular in the new world of Network Programmability and is an essential skill in 2021 for network engineers to master.
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 this is the page for you
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Palo Alto Ansible
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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 Network Automation Training Course Master Ansible and become a Network Automation Ninja! You can learn all my Ansible tips and tricks that I …
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 Inventory File
What is the Ansible Inventory File? The Ansible Invenotry File or hosts 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?
What is Ansible used for? Ansible is an open source automation platform which was purchased by Red Hat in October 2015. It is used heavily by the …
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 …
