Red Hat Ansible Network Automation Workshop

Overview

The Ansible Network Automation Workshop is a one-day, hands-on workshop covering both Ansible and Ansible Tower. Attendees will learn how to use Ansible to automate network operations, and acquire the skills needed to implement Ansible and Ansible Tower at their organizations.

Note: In this workshop, attendees will be managing network devices, such as Cisco routers.

Agenda

8:30 a.m.	Introduction and settle in
8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	Morning Sessions What is Ansible and The Ansible Way, Demo: Installing Ansible How Ansible Works and its Key Components Exploring the lab environment Writing your first playbook Module documentation, Registering output & tags
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Lunch
1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.	Afternoon Sessions Using Ansible to update router configurations Backing up the router configuration Using Ansible to restore the backed up configuration An introduction to templating with Jinja2 Building dynamic documentation using the command parser

Ansible Engine:

Exercise 1.1 - Exploring the lab environment
Exercise 1.2 - Writing your first playbook
Exercise 1.3 - Module documentation, Registering output & tags
Exercise 2.1 - Using Ansible to update router configurations
Exercise 2.2 - Backing up the router configuration
Exercise 2.3 - Using Ansible to restore the backed up configuration
Exercise 3.1 - An introduction to templating with Jinja2
Exercise 3.2 - Building dynamic documentation using the command parser

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Course Details

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.