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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!
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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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.
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
Install Ansible AWX 17.0.1 on Ubuntu 20.04 using Docker AWX is the upstream open source version of Ansible Tower, you can install it for free and use it for free forever. However there is no support. If you wanted a supported version you need to look at Ansible Tower For this tutorial I am going …
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 logging into each device? Ansible is a great way to perform software upgrades on network devices. This Ansible Playbook will upgrade your …
Master Ansible and Become a Network Automation Ninja You can learn all my Ansible tips and tricks that I have been using for the past 3 years. I’ve boiled it all down into a simple easy to follow step by step Ansible training course which is focused purely on network automation. Ansible Training for Network …
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 Vault. In this Ansible Vault tutorial I will show you how to keep all your password and sensitive data in encrypted files within Ansible. For information this tutorial …
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? Ansible is considered to be the tool of choice for most network engineers who are getting started with network programmability. Python is …
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 collection of playbooks you will soon discover that there will be duplication and you find yourself writing or …
What is the Ansible Host File? The Ansible Hosts File or Inventory file tells Ansible about the hosts that it can connect to. For Ansible to automate a Linux Server, Network device or Cloud server it has to exist within the inventory (also known as the Ansible hosts file) and saved in either YAML or …
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 reading! How to install ansible tower tbc
Anisble is an open source automation platform which was purchased by Red Hat in October 2015. It is used heavily by the server admin community for application deployment and to administer and deploy updates and patches to Linux servers. In the last few years it has gained a great following from the network community who …
In this Ansible IOS_Command Example post I will share a simple Ansible Playbook that will write an ACL to a Cisco Switch. This playbook will work equally well on any Cisco device and once you grasp the concepts of using the IOS_Command Module and also the IOS_Config module you can configure whatever you want. You …
Today I attended AnsibleFest in London – this is a paid event and one of two conferences organised by Ansible running in 2017. The second one is running on September 7th in San Francisco More Info here: www.ansible.com The event in London was held at the Intercontinental London 02 AnsibleFest London 2017 The day was split …
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?” I could not find any information around this question. So after a lot of research I found the answer and …
Cisco Router Configuration Backup using Ansible In this Ansible Cisco tutorial for beginners I will take you from the very beginning, installing Ansible on Ubuntu, to setting up the folders and running through a simple playbook which will backup Cisco router config. I will say that I am not a Linux expert so if you notice …
