Starting Small
Explore how to make safe and controlled network changes by automating tasks such as updating interface descriptions and provisioning VLANs using Ansible playbooks. Understand the process of running playbooks in check and live modes to verify changes, while using version control to manage your automation code. This lesson helps build confidence in applying tactical network automation with minimal risk.
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With risk mitigation in mind, start small. For instance, change something like an interface description, or add a VLAN to a lab machine. Explore this new process for making changes by gathering evidence of its success. Lower the fear factor and raise comfort levels with a few relatively safe and small changes.
Port description
Updating the description on an interface introduces the syntax and shows how to write a safe playbook that
utilizes the ios_config module.
Use git pull to refresh the local repository, add the playbook, commit often, and perform a pull request back into the master branch.