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Network Automation Cookbook

By : Okasha
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Network Automation Cookbook

By: Okasha

Overview of this book

Network Automation Cookbook is designed to help system administrators, network engineers, and infrastructure automation engineers to centrally manage switches, routers, and other devices in their organization's network. This book will help you gain hands-on experience in automating enterprise networks and take you through core network automation techniques using the latest version of Ansible and Python. With the help of practical recipes, you'll learn how to build a network infrastructure that can be easily managed and updated as it scales through a large number of devices. You'll also cover topics related to security automation and get to grips with essential techniques to maintain network robustness. As you make progress, the book will show you how to automate networks on public cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure. Finally, you will get up and running with Ansible 2.9 and discover troubleshooting techniques and network automation best practices. By the end of this book, you'll be able to use Ansible to automate modern network devices and integrate third-party tools such as NAPALM, NetBox, and Batfish easily to build robust network automation solutions.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Using Jinja2 with Ansible

Jinja2 is a powerful templating engine for Python and is supported by Ansible. It is also used to generate any text-based files, such as HTML, CSV, or YAML. We can utilize Jinja2 with Ansible variables in order to generate custom configuration files for network devices. In this recipe, we will outline how to use Jinja2 templates with Ansible.

Getting ready

In order to follow along with this recipe, an Ansible inventory file must be present and configured as outlined in the previous recipes.

How to do it...

  1. Create a new file inside the group_vars...