Mastering Python Networking - Second Edition

The Ansible Arista example

The final playbook example we will look at will be the Arista command module. At this point, we are quite familiar with our playbook syntax and structure. The Arista device can be configured to use transport using cli or eapi, so, in this example, we will use cli.

This is the host file:

[eos_devices]A1 ansible_host=192.168.199.158

The playbook is also similar to what we have seen previously:

    --- - name: EOS Show Commands hosts: "eos_devices" gather_facts: false connection: local vars: cli: host: "{{ ansible_host }}" username: "arista" password: "arista" authorize: true transport: cli tasks: - name: eos show commands eos_command: commands: - show version | i Arista provider: "{{ cli }}" register: output - name: ...