Automation Tools: Ansible
Explore how to use Ansible as an automation engine for network management. Learn to run playbooks, execute commands, and use check mode to validate network changes. Understand key features like the --limit option, idempotency, and ad hoc commands to streamline device management and configuration tasks.
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Ansible is the automation engine where playbooks are run, either in
check mode or full execution mode. Running playbooks is as simple as
creating a YAML file and running the ansible-playbook command in the
Linux host.
The syntax for ansible-playbook is as follows:
ansible-pla