8

Ansible Network Modules

Welcome to Chapter 8; this chapter will look at an often-overlooked use case for Ansible and delve into Ansible’s expansive community of networking modules.

In this chapter, instead of a deep dive into every collection—which could be an entire book—we’ll provide an overview, highlighting these modules’ capabilities and flexibilities.

The chapter covers the following topic:

  • Manufacturer and device support

Manufacturer and device support

So far, we have been looking at modules that interact with servers. In our case, they have mostly been running locally. In the upcoming chapters, we will be communicating more with remotely cloud-hosted servers. But, before interacting with remote servers, we should cover the core ...

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