NetDevOps Pipeline Engineering (NDO-304)
Continue your studies of NetDevOps with a focus on Ansible and automating common elements within the network. In addition to Ansible, students will study enough Python to understand Ansible’s plugin architecture. Lessons and labs focus on using both Python and Ansible to interact with and configure your network devices. At the conclusion of this course, you will return to work empowered with skills necessary to automate network management. This class is a combination of live demonstrations and hands-on labs with virtual network devices and endpoints as targets for your configuration.
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Prerequisites:
- Coding experience in another language
Target Audience:
- Network Administrators
- Ansible Developers
- Python Developers
- Administrators interested in Automation
- Individuals interested in devops, specifically for networking
Course Objectives:
- Version controlling code with Git
- Open SSH sessions and pass commands to remote servers
- Remotely open CLI to network devices
- Move files via SFTP
- Overview of Ansible modules
- Ansible collections for network automation
- Custom Ansible modules with Python
- Best practices for automating the management and configuration of network devices
Course Outline:
Certification
- Lecture + Lab: NetDevOps Pipeline Engineering
AI LLM Toolkit
- Lecture + Lab: Large Language Model toolkit for AI Solution Assistance
Software Control Management
- Lecture + Lab: SCM Option #1 – GitHub
- Lecture + Lab: SCM Option #2 – GitLab
Python and Ansible Overlap
- Lecture: Introducing Python
- Lecture + Lab: Getting dir(obj) help() and pydoc
- Lecture: Data Types for Python and Ansible
- Lecture + Lab: Python Lists
- Lecture + Lab: Python Dictionaries
- Lecture: Ansible Playbook Components
- Lecture + Lab: Running a Playbook
- Lecture + Lab: Debug and URI Module
- Lecture + Lab: Debug, Loops, and YAML Lists
API Operations
- Lecture: RESTful APIs and JSON
- Lecture + Lab: Exploring Open APIs
- Lecture + Lab: Ansible Keywords: register and when
- Lecture + Lab: API Tokens with Python and Ansible
SSH Operations
- Lecture: SSH Operations
- Lecture + Lab: Paramiko vs Ansible – SSH with RSA Keys
- Lecture + Lab: Paramiko – SFTP with UN and PW
- Lecture: Ansible for SSH operations
- Lecture + Lab: Ansible ’raw’ Module
Ansible Tools
- Lecture + Lab: Jinja2 Filters
- Lecture + Lab: Ansible, Python Methods, and Jinja Filters
- Switches and Routers
- Lecture: Netmiko
- Lecture + Lab: Running Netmiko
- Lecture + Lab: Network Playbooks, Set Fact, and Fail
- Lecture + Lab: Ansible Get Switch Config and Archive
- Lecture + Lab: Agnostic Network Modules
- Lecture + Lab: Ansible and TextFSM
Playbook Design
- Lecture + Lab: Network Playbook Error Handling
- Lecture + Lab: Network Playbook Precheck
- Lecture + Lab: Network Playbooks with Roles and Rollbacks
Ansible Workflow
- Lecture + Lab: Ansible Collections
- Lecture: Ansible Workflow
- Lecture + Lab: ansible-runner
Security
- Lecture + Lab: Securing Playbooks with Vault
- Lecture + Lab: Playbook Vars Prompts
Building out Playbooks
- Lecture + Lab: Ansible Module – template
- Lecture + Lab: Ansible and APIs
Python and Ansible
- Lecture + Lab: Running a script with Ansible
- Lecture + Lab: YAML, JSON, Dynamic, and Cloud Inventories
- Lecture + Lab: Writing an Ansible Module with Python
- Lecture + Lab: When to Use Python or Ansible
Playbook Tests
- Lecture + Lab: Roles and Molecule
Cisco Modeling Labs
- Lecture: Introduction to Cisco Modeling Labs (CML)
- Lecture + Lab: CML Manual Topography
- Lecture: SSH to CML Nodes
- Lecture + Lab: SSH to CML Nodes
Integrating NetDevOps Tools
- Lecture + Lab: CML Dynamic Inventory
- Lecture + Lab: Building CML Lab with Ansible
- Lecture + Lab: Converting Netbox Config to CML Topology
- Lecture + Lab: CML Facts Ansible Modules
CI/CD Pipeline to Implement Change
- Lecture + Lab: Netbox-Jinja2 Device Config with Ansible
- Lecture + Lab: Rolling Back Network Changes
Validation
- Lecture + Lab: Detecting Manual Interference Outside the Source of Truth
- Lecture: Managing the Hot Fix
- Lecture + Lab: Managing Config Drift