We're going to install the specific Python modules that enable the Ansible JUNOS_* modules to effectively communicate with JUNOS devices, routers, and switches. We'll also make some Ansible system changes in order to accommodate this.
- First of all, we're going to install the PyEZ JUNOS-eznc package on our Ansible control host because it contains some essential NETCONF-over-SSH functionality that Ansible will use:
ubuntu@ubuntu-xenial:~$ pip install JUNOS-eznc Collecting JUNOS-eznc Collecting netaddr (from JUNOS-eznc) Collecting PyYAML>=3.10 (from JUNOS-eznc) Collecting pyserial (from JUNOS-eznc) [...] Successfully built ncclient Installing collected packages: netaddr, PyYAML, pyserial, setuptools, six, pycparser, cffi, ...
