Starting Configuration
Explore how to automate entire campus network configurations by creating playbooks that execute tasks either serially or as a single assembled change. Understand the use of dynamic Jinja2 templates and Ansible modules to balance detailed validation and speedy execution, enabling effective network configuration management.
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Now that the intent has been documented and validated, two playbooks will be created with the ambitious intent of configuring the whole enterprise campus network based on the data models and using the dynamic templates. The playbooks generate the exact same configuration. However, one executes all the tasks serially, offering more control and insight into the playbook. Mean while, the other playbook assembles all the tasks and templates into a single change, offering more speed at execution time.
Full network configuration management builds ...