Network Automation with Ansible Fast Track

Who Should Attend

• Network Engineer/Administrator

• IT/Network Manager or Team Lead

• Systems Administrator or DevOps Engineer

• Security and Compliance Analyst

• Aspiring Network Architect/Consultant

What You’ll Learn

• Automate at Scale:** Develop and run Ansible playbooks to automate common network administration tasks.

• Manage Multi-Vendor Environments: Use Ansible’s core modules and advanced features to manage configurations on a variety of network devices.

• Build Reusable Solutions: Apply Jinja2 templates and Ansible Roles to create scalable, maintainable automation code.

• Secure Your Workflows: Implement secure automation practices using Ansible Vault and robust error-handling techniques.

Prerequisites

• Basic Keyboard Proficiency: Ability to efficiently navigate and use a keyboard, including typing, copy-pasting, and basic text editing in terminal and/or text editors.

Outline

Ansible Foundations

• Lecture: Introduction to Ansible

• Lecture: Introduction to YAML

• Lecture + Lab: Making an Inventory

• Lecture + Lab: Running a Playbook

• Lecture + Lab: ansible.cfg setup

• Lecture + Lab: Looping Tasks

• Lecture + Lab: Setting Variables

• Lecture + Lab: When Condition

Core Modules and Network Collections

• Lecture + Lab: Ansible Module - copy

• Lecture + Lab: Ansible Module - file

• Lecture + Lab: Ansible Module - get_url and uri

• Lecture + Lab: Ansible Module - template

• Lecture: Collections, Roles, and Ansible Galaxy

• Lecture + Lab: Using Collections

• Lecture + Lab: Exploring Switches with Ansible

• Lecture + Lab: Backup Cisco, Juniper, Arista, and More

Agnostic and Vendor-Specific Modules

• Lecture + Lab: Agnostic Network Modules

• Lecture + Lab: Simplifying Network Playbooks with Agnostic Modules

• Lecture + Lab: Network Playbooks and Vendor Specific Modules

• Lecture + Lab: Ansible Get Switch Config and Archive

• Lecture + Lab: network_cli Playbook

Dynamic Facts and APIs

• Lecture + Lab: Using Ansible Facts

• Lecture + Lab: Network API Calls

• Lecture + Lab: Jinja2 Templating for Network Configurations

Reusability and Security

• Lecture + Lab: Using Roles

• Lecture + Lab: Making Roles

• Lecture + Lab: Ansible Vault

Robustness and Error Handling

• Lecture + Lab: Ansible Error Handling

• Lecture + Lab: Network Playbook Error Handling

• Lecture + Lab: Network Playbook Precheck

• Lecture + Lab: Network Playbooks with Roles and Rollbacks