My journey with Network & Cloud Automation
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….
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…
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…