Network Automation with Ansible Fast Track

- Network Engineer/Administrator

- IT/Network Manager or Team Lead

- Systems Administrator or DevOps Engineer

- Security and Compliance Analyst

- Aspiring Network Architect/Consultant

• Automate at Scale: Develop and run Ansible playbooks to automate common network administration tasks.
• Manage Multi-Vendor Environments: Use Ansible’s core modules and advanced features to manage configurations on a variety of network devices.
• Build Reusable Solutions: Apply Jinja2 templates and Ansible Roles to create scalable, maintainable automation code.
• Secure Your Workflows: Implement secure automation practices using Ansible Vault and robust error-handling techniques.

Ansible Foundations

• Lecture: Introduction to Ansible
• Lecture: Introduction to YAML
• Lecture + Lab: Making an Inventory
• Lecture + Lab: Running a Playbook
• Lecture + Lab: ansible.cfg setup
• Lecture + Lab: Looping Tasks
• Lecture + Lab: Setting Variables
• Lecture + Lab: When Condition

Core Modules and Network Collections

• Lecture + Lab: Ansible Module - copy
• Lecture + Lab: Ansible Module - file
• Lecture + Lab: Ansible Module - get_url and uri
• Lecture + Lab: Ansible Module - template
• Lecture: Collections, Roles, and Ansible Galaxy
• Lecture + Lab: Using Collections
• Lecture + Lab: Exploring Switches with Ansible
• Lecture + Lab: Backup Cisco, Juniper, Arista, and More

Agnostic and Vendor-Specific Modules

• Lecture + Lab: Agnostic Network Modules
• Lecture + Lab: Simplifying Network Playbooks with Agnostic Modules
• Lecture + Lab: Network Playbooks and Vendor Specific Modules
• Lecture + Lab: Ansible Get Switch Config and Archive
• Lecture + Lab: network_cli Playbook

Dynamic Facts and APIs

• Lecture + Lab: Using Ansible Facts
• Lecture + Lab: Network API Calls
• Lecture + Lab: Jinja2 Templating for Network Configurations

Reusability and Security

• Lecture + Lab: Using Roles
• Lecture + Lab: Making Roles
• Lecture + Lab: Ansible Vault

Robustness and Error Handling

• Lecture + Lab: Ansible Error Handling
• Lecture + Lab: Network Playbook Error Handling
• Lecture + Lab: Network Playbook Precheck
• Lecture + Lab: Network Playbooks with Roles and Rollbacks

Basic Keyboard Proficiency: Ability to efficiently navigate and use a keyboard, including typing, copy-pasting, and basic text editing in terminal and/or text editors.

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