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Network Automation Cookbook

By : Karim Okasha
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Network Automation Cookbook

By: Karim 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)

Validating traffic forwarding with Batfish

In this recipe, we will outline how to validate traffic forwarding in the network. This is accomplished in Batfish using the forwarding tables that Batfish generates from the device configuration. It is very useful to validate proper traffic forwarding within the network prior to any change.

Getting ready

The network configuration is already generated and the network snapshot is already synced with the Batfish server.

How to do it...

  1. Update the pb_batfish_analyis.yml playbook with the following task to validate traffic forwarding...