Starting Small

With risk mitigation in mind, start small. For instance, change something like an interface description, or add a VLAN to a lab machine. Explore this new process for making changes by gathering evidence of its success. Lower the fear factor and raise comfort levels with a few relatively safe and small changes.

Port description

Updating the description on an interface introduces the syntax and shows how to write a safe playbook that utilizes the ios_config module.

Use git pull to refresh the local repository, add the playbook, commit often, and perform a pull request back into the master branch.