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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)

Collecting device facts with NAPALM

In this recipe, we will outline how to collect the operational state from network devices using the NAPALM fact-gathering Ansible module. This can be used to validate the network state across multi-vendor equipment since NAPALM Ansible's fact-gathering module returns a consistent data structure across all vendor OSes supported by NAPALM.

Getting ready

To follow along with this recipe, it is assumed that an Ansible inventory is already in place and network reachability between the Ansible controller and the network is already established. Finally, the network is configured as per the previous recipe.

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