Network Automation Cookbook

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The napalm_install_config module provides extra options to control how to manage the configuration on the remote devices, such as the configuration diff. With this option, we can collect the differences between the running configuration on the device and the configuration that we will push via NAPALM. This option can be enabled as follows:

• Create a folder called config_diff to store the configuration diff captured by NAPALM, as shown in the following code block:

$ cat group_vars/all.yml< -- Output Omitted for brevity -->config_diff_dir: ./config_diff$ cat tasks/build_config_dir.yml- name: "Create Config Diff Directory"  file: path={{config_diff_dir}} state=directory  run_once: yes

• Update the pb_napalm_net_build.yml playbook, ...