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Network Programmability and Automation Fundamentals
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Network Programmability and Automation Fundamentals

by Khaled Abuelenain, Jeff Doyle, Anton Karneliuk, Vinit Jain
May 2021
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1232 pages
41h 29m
English
Cisco Press
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Chapter 19

Ansible

The chapters so far in this book cover various components of the network programmability stack and how those components work together to provide a usable set of tools for network automation. This chapter covers yet another one of those tools: Ansible.

Ansible is an application that makes use of several of the components of the network programmability stack to abstract network automation tasks. As a matter of fact, the applications of Ansible extend well beyond network automation and into other domains, such as compute and application automation. The popularity of Ansible is due to the simplicity of the tool as well as the not-so-steep learning curve. Learning Ansible does not require previous knowledge of Python or any other ...

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ISBN: 9780135183762