Ansible Network Automation - Agnostic Examples

This Github repository is for showcasing cli_command and cli_config agnostic network automation modules for the network_cli connection plugin.

Playbooks

• show_interfaces.yml - this playbook issues show ip interface brief on Cisco IOS and Arista EOS, and show interface terse on Juniper Junos. Then displays the output to the terminal window.
• backup.yml - performs a backup of the running configuration on Arista EOS, Cisco IOS and Juniper Junos.

Explanation of Additional Files

• ansible.cfg - this is the Ansible Configuration File. This is not required but points to my inventory, in this case a file called hosts
• hosts - this is an INI formatted inventory file. This is to be used as an example.
• group_vars - this is a directory that contains variables separated by group. It is recommended to have a group per network platform type to store platform specific variables.

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• Red Hat® Ansible® Network Automation: automate networking devices from Arista (EOS), Cisco (IOS, IOS XR, NX-OS), Juniper (JunOS), Open vSwitch, and VyOS and many more! Includes Ansible Tower curated content specifically for network use cases.