In Part I of the Ansible series, we looked at how to backup the configuration of network devices like cisco, juniper, arista, etc to the local disk of the ansible control node. However, in this post, we will see how we can take the backup of the configuration directly to the TFTP server using Ansible….
Category: Cloud Automation
How to backup network devices using Ansible – Part I
After a lot of procrastination and apprehension to learn Ansible for reasons that network industry folks are well aware of, I finally have to learn Ansible because the job demands it now. Of course, one of the primary tasks is to learn how to back up the configuration of network devices using Ansible. In this…
Understanding Ansible
What is Ansible? Ansible is a tool developed by our beloved Red Hat to automate lots of stuff around infrastructure. There’s lot of magic that has been put into in the form of code which enables ansible do stuff quite seamlessly. However, mostly Ansible is being used for configuration management of devices in cloud and…
Deploying VPC and an EC2 Instance in AWS using Terraform
Letâs do a short exercise wherein we will define a VPC and spin up an EC2 instance in the AWS cloud. We can use the AWS free tier account to do it. First, the following is the prep work that we need to do which would hardly take 10 minutes. Create AWS Free tier account….
Understanding Terraform For Beginners
Defining infrastructure as code(IaC) is one of the easiest ways to manage the whole infrastructure and youâll probably like it more if you are not a fan of using GUI to manage stuff. In this beginner’s guide to understanding terraform for cloud automation, let’s see what this buzzword really is all about Terraform is a…