Dev: Automating network using ansible

This is going to be the last part of this series. As netconf uses a similar approach to restconf (using only xml) I decided that ansible would be be more interesting.

This post, assumes you have ansible already installed. I'll be using local configuration for ansible, overriding the default one. To accomplish this I'll be using the following files:

ansible.cfg > configuration file

hosts > inventory file

pynat_ansible.yml > playbook

group_vars/session_creds.yml > file storing credentials

Ansible structure and configuration is quite easy to understand. Let's look the content of each file:

ansible.cfg

hosts

group_vars/session_creds

pynat_ansible.yml

Run the playbook

ansible-playbook pynat_ansible.yaml

I hope you enjoyed this post, leave your comments below and I'll see you on the next one.