Ansible4Networking

Advanced Ansible Network Automation workshop

Unlock the Power of Network Automation with Ansible Automation Platform and real world use cases!

Join us for a half-day, immersive, hands-on workshop to experience the power and capabilities of AAP in automating real-world network scenarios. As a continuation of the Introduction to Ansible Network workshop, this session introduces advanced concepts, including Source of Truth (SoT), dynamic inventories, compliance, configuration drift, and state validation. Participants will explore the "art of the possible" by building production-ready workflows and robust network validations.

The lab environment runs Arista EOS and Cisco NX-OS virtual switches on Containerlab, managed through AAP workflows. with NetBox as the source of truth and Gitea as the Git backend.

Prerequisites:
Completion of the Introduction to Ansible Network workshop or a comparable 101-level Ansible workshop in the past.

Workshop Contents:

• Section 1-1: Dynamic Inventory (20 minutes)
• Section 1-2: Backups as Code (20 minutes)
• Section 1-3: Network Compliance (20 minutes)
• Section 1-4: Basic Configuration and Validation (20 minutes)
• Section 1-5: Underlay Configuration Configuration and Validation (20 minutes)
• Section 1-6: Overlay Configuration and Validation (20 minutes)
• Section 1-7: Tuning Ansible for Scale (20 minutes)
• Section 1-8: Managing Configuration Drift and Restore (20 minutes)