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Automation Tools: Ansible

Automation Tools: Ansible

Let's learn how to use Ansible in the network automation process and try out some simple commands.

Ansible is the automation engine where playbooks are run, either in check mode or full execution mode. Running playbooks is as simple as creating a YAML file and running the ansible-playbook command in the Linux host.

The syntax for ansible-playbook is as follows:

ansible-playbook <playbook file name.yml> <options>

Some common options:

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