Network Automation Workshop for Service Providers

Skills Gained

Red Hat Ansible Engine

• Basic understanding of what Ansible is and how it works with networking devices
• Running ad-hoc Ansible commands from a command line
• Building and execution of playbooks to accomplish basic router connectivity
• Use Case: Backing up network configurations
• Use Case: Create a GRE tunnel
• Use Case: Additional router configurations
• Introduction to Roles: Making playbooks reusable and platform agnostic

Red Hat Ansible Tower

• Installing Ansible Tower
• Configuring Ansible Tower
• Use Case: Creating and running a job template

Who Can Benefit

This workshop is geared toward network operators, network engineers, cloud administrators, DevOps engineers, security professionals and anyone interested in network automation.

Requirements for Attendees

• An internet connection is required. Attendees must come with a laptop with admin rights and the ability to SSH to a lab environment hosted in a public cloud.
• Attendees should have working knowledge of using SSH and command line shell (BASH) as well as a conceptual understanding of linux system administration (how to use simple commands like cd, ls, mv, mkdir, etc).
• Attendees should have working knowledge of at least one Linux text editor (nano, pico, vi/vim, zile, emacs) with which to write Ansible playbooks.