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Ansible for Network Automation (DO457)
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Network Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO457) is designed for network administrators or infrastructure automation engineers who want to use network automation to centrally manage the switches, routers, and other devices in the organization's network infrastructure. Learn how to use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to remotely automate the configuration of network devices, test and validate the current network state, and perform compliance checks to detect and correct configuration drift.
This course is based on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3
Course content summary
- Prepare a development environment for Ansible network automation.
- Write and troubleshoot effective Ansible Playbooks for network automation.
- Gather information about network infrastructure configuration for infrastructure awareness and configuration backup.
- Automate specific network administration use cases, including configuration of routers and switches, ports, VLANs, SNMP monitoring, and routing protocols.
- Use Ansible Playbooks to manage devices from various hardware vendors, including Cisco, Juniper, and Arista.
- Centrally manage Ansible content in Git and run it centrally with automation controller.
- Reuse existing, tested network automation code with Ansible Roles, Ansible Content Collections, and Ansible validated content.
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Course Outline and Details
Prerequisites
- Experience with network administration, including a solid understanding of TCP/IP, routers, and managed switches
- Familiarity with managing network devices from the command line, preferably with one or more of Cisco IOS, IOS XR, or NX-OS; Juniper JUNOS; Arista EOS; or VyOS
- You will work with text files and run commands in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment. A working knowledge of Linux, including how to edit text files and run commands from the shell, and how to use SSH to log in to remote systems
- Knowledge equivalent to Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) or better is recommended
- Prior Ansible knowledge is not required
Target Audience
This course is designed for network administrators, network automation engineers, and infrastructure automation engineers who want to learn how to use Ansible to automate the administration, deployment, and configuration management of the network infrastructure of their organization or enterprise.
Course Objectives
As a result of attending this course, you will be able to use Red Hat Ansible Automation for Networking to write Ansible playbooks and launch them to manage the routers, switches, and other devices in your network infrastructure. You will have experience with using Ansible to automate several common use cases and have a basic understanding of how to write playbooks that can target devices made by different network hardware vendors supported by Red Hat Ansible Automation.
Course Outline
Deploy Ansible
- Install Ansible and create Ansible inventories.
Run commands and plays
- Execute ad hoc commands and prepare Ansible playbooks.
Parameterize Ansible
- Control tasks with loops and conditions.
Administer Ansible
- Safeguard information with Ansible Vault and manage inventories.
Automate simple network operations
- Gather network information with Ansible and configure network devices.
Automate complex operations
- Solve new MACD challenges and overcome real-world challenges.