Mastering Ansible Automation for Network Engineers – (Free Course)

What you’ll learn

• Master Ansible Network Automation from scratch. No prior coding experience is needed. 100% Hands-on demonstration
• Elevate your career as a future-ready Network Automation Engineer, equipped with cutting-edge skills and expertise
• REST API Automation using Ansible GET, POST, PUT, PATCH DELETE operation sto Devices
• SSH Automation and Leverage TextFSM, NTC templates and PyATS CLI Parsers in Ansible for device configuration Parsing
• Learn to use Ansible Network resource modules such as cisco ios_facts, ios_config, ios_comands, ios_interfaces, ios_l3_interfaces, ios_static_routes
• Use RegEX Filters in Ansible for custom config parsing
• In-depth understanding on Ansible valut for encrypting/decrypting variables and files
• Cisco IOS Resource Modules
• PaloAlto Firewall Automation using Ansible Examples
• Gain Beginner to Advanced knowledge on Ansible Playbook and Task Options
• Explore Jinja2 templating for dynamic configuration Generation using host or group variables
• Understand ansible Magic Variables, hostvars, play_vars, include_vars, group_vars, host_vars with examples
• Learn advanced playbook features such as loops, conditionals, handlers , block, rescue and assert
• Lab setup using GNS3 VM and VS Code as the IDE for Playbooks with SSH remote development extension
• Utilize Ansible roles and collections for modular and reusable automation.
• Implement automation solutions across Network Devices such as routers switches etc
• Optimize Ansible playbook strategies and parallelism for faster execution
• Ansible’s inventory and configuration file management
• Understand Ansible Core vs Community
• Create ansible custom modules using Python Script
• Ansible include vs improt with task roles and playbooks examples
• Ansible task options, play options and debugger
• Clear explanation on Ansible’s Variable Precedence
• Ansible loops conditionals and exception handling
• How to use Ansible’s filter and lookup plugins
• How to use Network device resource module for configuration management
• REST API Automation using Ansible
• Configuration Parsing using Ansible RegEx
• Brief Introduction to Ansible automation frameworks such as Ansible AWX

Description

Learn Ansible Automation skills from scratch to an advanced level for automating your Network.

Gain an in-depth understanding of Ansible Playbook and Task Options
For attending this course you don’t need any prior coding experience.

100% Hands-on demonstration of the concepts using Network Automation Usecases

The IDE is VS Code and Cisco devices will be used for demonstrating most of the device interactions.(vIOS, IOS-XE)

Below are the topics in high level

• The course will be starting with how to setup Lab for Ansible Network Automation Practice
• Install and Setup Ubuntu OS VM for ansible
• Setup VSCode for SSH remote development
• Ansible installation in the Python VIrtual Environment
• Ansible Core and Community difference
• Inventory and Config file setup
• YAML File ,Playbook fundamentals and Ansible Lint
• SSH Keybased Authentication to Cisco devices from Ansible
• Ansible Vault for encrypting files and variables
• Demonstration of Ansible Vault ID
• group_vars and host_vars
• Handle device specific variables and configurations effectively
• Explore advanced features of Ansible CLI
• cisco ios_facts and ios_commands module
• cisco ios_config module explained in detail
• PaloAlto Firewall Galaxy Collections Examples
• PaloAlto Address Objects, Object Groups and Security Rule automation using Ansible
• Cisco config diff, parent command, before, after, match and replace options
• ios config backup options
• Configuration backup and save option
• Cisco ios resource modules
• cisco interfaces, l3_interfaces and l2_interfaces resource module
• cisco ios_user and static_route module
• CLI Parsers
• pyATS, ntc_templates and TextFSM Parsers
• Ansible  Magic Variables
• hostvars and play_vars
• set_fact vs vars explained
• Ansible Variable precedence explained in detail
• Ansible filter Plugins
• default, ternary, dict2items, items2dict filters
• to_json, from_json, to_yaml, from_yaml  filters
• zip, combine, map,json_query(using JMES Path) filters
• ip_address, url and datetime filters
• list operations and string manipulation using filters
• RegEX Filters
• Regex search, find_all and replace filters
• Jinja2 templates example
• jinja2 for loop and include option
• jinja2 in ios_config module
• embed code in jinja2 template
• lookup Plugins
• file lookup, template lookup plugins
• vars, env and pipe lookup plugins
• Loops and Conditionals :  loops, until and when
• Play Options
  • ansible play strategies, forks and serial
  • debugger for effective troubleshooting
  • host order, log_path
  • tags and limit option
  • check_mode
• Task Options
  • delegate_to
  • run_once
  • ignore_erros and failed when
  • changed_when and no_log
• use handlers and listen option
• block and rescue for exception handling
• assert option
• How to install ansible collections: using galaxy command, requirements file and github
• How to create roles and add tasks to respective directories
• Detailed explanation of ansible include vs import
• include_tasks vs import tasks
• include_role vs import role
• import_playbook module
• how to create ansible custom modules
  • convert facts to csv file using custom module which uses python csv in the backend
  • how to pass module args to custom module
  • how to return data using custom module
• REST API from Ansible
  • how to use URI Module for REST API
  • YANG Suite introduction
  • REST API from Postman
  • Convert POSTMAN REST request to Ansible URI task
  • Initiate REST – GET, PUT,POST PATCH and DELETE Operations from Ansible
  • How to configure Cisco device using REST API
  • how to save config using rest API
  • Parse config using REST API
• Extra Learning Topic(AWX)
  • Install AWX in Minikube for learning
  • Basics of Ansible execution environment (Podman)

Who this course is for:

• Network Engineers, Network Administrators, Network Operatore
• Network Architects
• Net DevOps Engineers
• Network Automation Engineers
• Network Automation testing
• System Administrators, System Engineers
• Cisco Certified Professionals
• CCNA, CCNP , CCI Professionals
• All the Network Automation enthusiast
• DevNet
• DevOps who want to learn Network Automation
• Routing Switching, Wireless and Security Engineers
• Network Implementation Engineers
• Network Design Professionals
• Ansible Engineer Networking

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