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#325: Ansible Network Automation

2021/10/5
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David Bombal

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Learn how to use Ansible to automate Cisco IOS network devices. This is the future: Network Automation using Ansible and Python. If you want to be a network engineer in future, you need to learn Cisco DevNet and automation technologies.

Menu: Welcome: 0:00 Who is Donald? 0:12 Books that Donald wrote: 1:00 What is Ansible and why is it recommended? 1:22 Idempotency: 2:27 Create a project: 3:50 Create a hosts.ini file: 4:20 Agent vs agentless / puppet vs ansible: 5:00 What does Ansible use to connect to devices: 7:40 New / Better way of doing things (hosts.yml): 17:40 Which is better? 23:20 Global ansible.cfg file: 24:01 Never use tab: 27:30 Create a repository: 27:55 Do you need to use Git: 30:20 Is Linux recommended? Or is Windows ok? 30:35 Can you use a Mac? 31:24 Redo the process using public github: 31:52 Files on github: 35:34 Copy files to the Ansible server: 36:02 Create a virtual environment: 37:55 Install Ansible: 38:38 Check the ansible docs: 41:40 Run Ansible adhoc commands: 43:55 What did ping do? 46:20 What is an Ansible playbook: 47:50 Create Ansbile playbook: 48:20 Run Ansible Playbooks: 53:09 Add an IP address: 56:06

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