Network Automation Cookbook

How to do it...

1. Create a new file, ~/.Azure/credentials, to host all of the credentials to authenticate to Azure, as in the following code:

$ cat ~/.Azure/credentials[default]subscription_id=XXX-XXXX-XXXXclient_id=XXX-XXXX-XXXXsecret=XXX-XXXX-XXXXtenant=XXX-XXXX-XXXX

2. Create a new playbook, pb_validate_Azure_net.yml, to validate our deployment and include the following tasks to collect resource group facts and validate it:

$ cat pb_validate_Azure_net.yml- name: Build Azure Network Infrastructure  hosts: all  connection: local  tasks:    - name: Get Resource Facts      Azure_rm_resourcegroup_facts:        name: "{{ rg_name }}"      register: rg_facts      tags: rg_facts    - name: Validate Resource Group is Deployed      assert:        that:          - rg.name == rg_name - rg.properties.provisioningState ...