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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.

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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:

  • –ask-vault-pass: Ask for the vault password.

  • -C, --check: Do not make changes; instead, try to predict some of the changes that occur.

  • -D, --diff: When changing (small) files and templates, show the differences in those files; works great with --check.

  • -l SUBSET, --limit=SUBSET: Further limit selected hosts to an additional pattern. ...