Welcome to Advanced Ansible Network Automation Workshop where you will learn advanced Ansible automation techniques for managing networking, meaning, switches and routers mainly. This includes how to approach configuration management, where the students learn techniques that scales to many tens of thousands of devices. It also teaches how to deal with different common operational tasks that network engineers deal with most commonly, such as troubleshooting, backups and more.

 

This workshop uses Arista cEOS, because it is so very easy to work with. If you are using Cisco, Arista will feel very familiar, most commands are similar between the two. If you are using some other network OS, don't worry, as techniques taught by this workshop can be re-used for any network vendor.

 

To complete this lab you only need a web browser. While all web browsers should work, there is a known issue with Firefox where you cannot copy and paste content into your working environment. If you can, Chrome and Opera web browsers have been proven to work without issues. Edge and Safari browser likely also works without any issues.

 

• The person has intermediate knowledge about Ansible.

• The person has intermediate to expert knowledge about networking, more specific, about switching and routing (level 2 to 5).

• It's useful (not required) if you have basic knowledge of how to navigate in a Linux shell.