Introduction to Ansible for Network Automation

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Shows working Ansible playbooks that back up configs from Cisco, Juniper, Arista and VMware devices, generate per‑device Markdown reports and auto‑configure interface descriptions from LDP neighbor data using ios_config module and cli_command/cli_config multi‑vendor modules. Uses Jinja2 templates, inventory vars and connection plugins (ssh/netconf/REST), demonstrates --check dry‑run and produces a timestamped backup directory with all configs successfully saved, claiming most playbooks take under an hour to write.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:13Agenda
3. 1:40What is Ansible
4. 2:35Why Ansible
5. 3:48Architecture
6. 6:54Ansible for Network Automation
7. 12:08Generate Local Data as a Report
8. 14:05Auto Configure Interface Descriptions
9. 16:43Configuration Backups
10. 17:50CLI Configuration Module
11. 19:23Demo
12. 20:29Backup Devices
13. 22:52Operational Data

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