The vendor Support
Let's face it, we don't live in a vacuum. We wake up everyday needing to deal with network equipment made by various vendors. We saw the difference between Pexpect and API in previous chapters, and the API integration certainly did not appear out of thin air. Each vendor needs to invest time, money, and engineering resources to make the integration happen. The willingness for the vendor to support a technology matters greatly in our world. Luckily, all the major vendors support Ansible as clearly indicated by the ever increasingly available network modules (http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/list_of_network_modules.html).
Why do vendors support Ansible more than other automation tools? Being agentless certainly helps, having ...
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