Mastering Python Networking - Second Edition

Ansible 2.5 connection example

We have briefly talked about the addition of network connection changes in Ansible playbooks, starting with version 2.5. Along with the changes, Ansible also released a network best practices document, https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/network/user_guide/network_best_practices_2.5.html. Let's build an example based on the best practices guide. For our topology, we will reuse the topology in Chapter 2, Low-Level Network Device Interactions, with two IOSv devices. Since there are multiple files involved in this example, the files are grouped into a subdirectory named ansible_2-5_example.

Our inventory file is reduced to the group and the name of the hosts:

$ cat hosts[ios-devices]iosv-1iosv-2

We have created ...