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Practical Ansible 2
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Practical Ansible 2

by Daniel Oh, James Freeman, Fabio Alessandro Locati
June 2020
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
410 pages
9h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
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Reviewing the available Ansible networking modules

At the moment, there are thousands of modules on a total of more than 20 different networking platforms. Let's learn how to find the ones more relevant to you:

  1. First of all, you need to know which device type you have and how Ansible calls it. On the https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/network/user_guide/platform_index.html page, you can find the different device types that Ansible supports and how they are designated. In our example, we will use Cisco IOS as an example.
  2. On the https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/list_of_network_modules.html page, you can search for the category dedicated to the family of switches you need, and you'll be able to see all the modules you can ...
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