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, however if you are looking for some basic Ansible Training a lot of the content is valid for all uses of Ansible.

Videos are all on YouTube and if you want to skip to any part of any video the links under each video will take to direct to the video on YT.

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I also have an Ansible Training Course focussed for Network engineers

Ansible Inventory File

00:00 Start
00:11 What is the Ansible Hosts File?
00:25 Default Ansible Hosts File Location
01:30 Change the default file location
04:30 Configuring Children in the hosts file
06:21 Create a custom ansible.cfg file and specify location of Hosts file
07:18 Ansible Inventory Documentation

More info at this post – Ansible Inventory File Explained

Ansible Network Modules

00:00 Start
01:11 What are Ansible Network Modules?
03:00 CSR Router demo
03:43 Ansible Playbook introduction
04:25 Intro to VSCode
05:20 push new username to Cisco Router
07:40 IOS_user module
11:20 IOS_ping module
14:44 Who is Roger Perkin?
16:50 Backup Nexus device using Ansible
18:30 Idempotency
19:00 Review backup configs