Starting Automation

Information gathering

There may be immediate needs for an automated solution. While it may be tempting to jump right into making automated changes to the network, it is strongly recommended to begin with information gathering. Spend time breaking down the network into the building blocks of enterprise design and logical functions.

For example:

• Enterprise lab network

  • Core

  • Distribution

  • Access

• Enterprise campus network

  • Core

  • Distribution

  • Access

• Enterprise data center

• Enterprise WAN

• Enterprise DMZ / Public Access Zone (PAZ)

• Public and private clouds

Hardware platforms and software versions

To select the required Ansible modules and identify differences in configuration syntax, ...