This book provides a comprehensive learning journey aimed at helping you master Ansible and efficiently automate a range of enterprise network devices, such as routers, switches, firewalls, Wireless LAN Controller (WLC), and Linux servers. Introduction to Ansible Network Automation combines the fundamentals of three books into one, covering basics of Linux administration, Ansible concepts, and Ansible network automation.
Author(s): Brendan Choi; Erwin Medina
Publisher: Apress
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 1235
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Front Matter
Part I. The Intros
1. Is Ansible Good for Network Automation?
2. Shall We Linux? (Part 1: The Linux Command Line)
3. Shall We Linux? (Part 2)
4. Setting Up an Ansible Learning Environment
Part II. The Concepts
5. Understanding Data Types and File Formats for Ansible
6. Learning Ansible Basic Concepts I: SSH and Ad Hoc Commands
7. Learning Ansible Basic Concepts II: Ad Hoc Commands – A Beginner’s Guide
8. Learning Ansible Basic Concepts II: Using when, Improving Playbook, and Targeting Nodes
9. Learning Ansible Basic Concepts III: Git, Tags, Managing Files, and Services
10. Learning Ansible Basic Concepts IV: Users, Roles, Host Variables, Templates, and Password Vault
11. Building an Ansible Learning Environment for Network Automation
Part III. The Practical
12. Cisco Router and Switch Configuration with Ansible
13. Network Device Backup Ansible Playbook
14. Ansible Playbook Scheduling with Cron
15. Cisco Router Upgrading Playbook
16. Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Upgrading Playbook
17. Creating User Accounts on Palo Alto and Fortinet Firewalls
18. Creating Security Policy Rules on Palo Alto and Fortinet Firewalls
19. Creating IPSec Tunnels on Palo Alto Firewalls
20. Object Addresses and Object Address Groups Creation Playbook for Palo Alto Firewall
21. Upgrading Palo Alto Firewalls
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