Practical Ansible 2

Learning how Ansible manages networking devices

Ansible allows you to manage many different networking devices, including Arista EOS, Cisco ASA, Cisco IOS, Cisco IOS XR, Cisco NX-OS, Dell OS 6, Dell OS 9, Dell OS 10, Extreme EXOS, Extreme IronWare, Extreme NOS, Extreme SLX-OS, Extreme VOSS, F5 BIG-IP, F5 BIG-IQ, Junos OS, Lenovo CNOS, Lenovo ENOS, MikroTik RouterOS, Nokia SR OS, Pluribus Netvisor, VyOS, and OS, which supports NETCONF. As you can imagine, there are various ways we can make Ansible communicate with them.

Also, we have to remember that Ansible networking modules run on the controller host (the one where you issued the ansible command), while usually, the Ansible modules run on the target host. This difference is important because ...