Ansible

A Hands-on Guide to Multi-Tiered Firewall Changes with Ansible and Batfish (Part 1)IntroductionNow I can say, from experience, that in my opinion one of the most frustratingadmin tasks can be ACL updates on multi-tier firewall environments. Validationof the change and any troubleshooting if an ACL is still missed can

Introduction In this article I will share my top 5 Ansible tips and tricks, that I hope will save you time when automating your networks with Ansible. List Tasks Ansible provides a rather handy little option to print each of your tasks for your plays via the option --list-tasks. Certainly

Introduction Welcome back to part 3. We will now look at an example workflow using the steps and Playbooks previously covered in parts 1 and 2. WorkFlow Our workflow will consist of the following steps: Figure 1 - WorkFlow overview. With regards to the Dev environment. This is our local

Introduction Welcome back. Previously we introduced ourselves to Ansible and Batfish, along with installing the necessary components. We will now look at an example topology, and also dive into the different Ansible modules that the Batfish role provides us. Note: The code for this guide can be found within the

Introduction Now I can say, from experience, that in my opinion one of the most frustrating admin tasks can be ACL updates on multi-tier firewall environments. Validation of the change and any troubleshooting if an ACL is still missed can be tedious and lengthy. Therefore, I'm delighted today

Now that we have reviewed the components and tools that we will use within our pipelines, let's turn our attention to each of the pipelines, the configuration, and also a walkthrough. CI/CD Pipelines We will configure 3 pipelines - Integration, Delivery and Deployment. Let’s recap on

Welcome back. Now that we have an understanding of what NetDevOps is, let's dive into the components and tools that we will use to build our NetDevOps CI/CD pipeline. Let’s go … Components Our CI/CD pipeline will be built using a number of components. Below shows

Introduction In the world of networking NetDevOps is one of the latest buzz words flying around. But what is NetDevOps, or even DevOps? In this 3-part series we will answer these questions, and also dive into a NetDevOps implementation using Ansible, Github, Jenkins and Cisco VIRL. Our example will be

Introduction Within this article we will be exploring the world of Ansible and how it can be used to automate the network. We will start with automating the provisioning of an L3 spine and leaf fabric. Once complete we will then automate the connectivity testing across the fabric. Let'