What to Automate Next
Explore how to extend network automation beyond traditional campus devices by using Ansible playbooks and dynamic templates. Understand automating data center devices, WAN configurations, and load-balancers to create a holistic, intent-based network management framework.
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Many more components remain on the network that still use traditional CLI or NMS methodologies. Using the same processes, technologies, and techniques, go beyond the enterprise campus network and automate the rest of the network’s logical functions. Once the entire enterprise network is automated, the scope can increase to include devices like load-balancers, storage arrays, Windows and Linux servers, and anything else that can be connected using SSH.
Data center
Ansible has supported modules designed for the enterprise data center, including NXOS modules for the Cisco Nexus platforms. Much of the code can be reused from the campus to the data center by ...