Introduction to Ansible for Network Engineers
summary
Ansible playbooks run from a laptop, use an inventory and modules, and push idempotent changes (demo shows loopbacks 100–104 rendered from Jinja2 templates and applied with changed=false when already present). Playbooks gather facts, render per-device reports, create timestamped pre/post capture files and run a linux diff so pre/post diffs saved per-device show exactly what changed. Demos execute successfully against ios xe sandboxes and code lands on GitHub.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:28What Ansible is
- 3:57Ansible building blocks
- 8:12Templates, variables, facts
- 11:19Demo: Configuring interfaces
- 15:26Demo: Building reports
- 18:11Demo: Pre and post checks
- 22:49Resources
