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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)

Populating sites in NetBox

In this recipe, we will outline how to create sites in NetBox. Sites are a logical construct within NetBox that allow us to group our infrastructure based on their physical location. We need to define our sites before we can start declaring our devices and place them in these sites.

Getting ready

Ensure integration between Ansible and NetBox is in place, as outlined in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

  1. Update the group_vars/all.yml file with the following data about our physical sites:
sites:
- name: DC1
description: "Main Data...