Ansible Network Automation

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

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