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In this blog I would like to showcase the power of Ansible Content Collections to build powerful abstractions. Collections are a distribution format for Ansible content that can include playbooks, roles, modules and plugins. For this blog post, let us address an Infrastructure as Code(IaC) use case for network configuration management of BGP. We will Read more about Handling OOB Network Changes[…]
The 2020 results of the NetDevOps Survey are out! This was the third time the survey was conducted and was targeted to the network automation community. But first, a huge shout out to the team that led this effort again (Damien Garros and Francois Caen). The survey was 100% community-driven, and I thank them for Read more about A Tale of Two Network Automation Surveys[…]
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform acts as the single pane of glass to automate different manual tasks in a heterogeneous cloud and virtualization environments; be it Red Hat OpenStack Platform, VMware vSphere, bare metal or the next-generation Telco cloud-native platform. To manage cloud infrastructures like Red Hat OpenStack Platform, we will need to manage not Read more about Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Automation[…]
Comparing the current operational state of your IT infrastructure to your desired state is a common use case for IT automation. This allows automation users to identify drift or problem scenarios to take corrective actions and even proactively identify and solve problems. This blog post will walk through the automation workflow for validation of operational Read more about Using New Ansible Utilities for Operational State Management and Remediation[…]
The Red Hat Ansible Network Automation engineering team is continually adding new resource modules to its supported network platforms. Ansible Network Automation resource modules are opinionated network modules that make network automation easier to manage and more consistent for those automating various network platforms in production. The goal for resource modules is to avoid creating Read more about Ansible Network Resource Modules: Deep Dive on Return Values[…]
Here you will learn about NetBox at a high level, how it works to become a Source of Truth (SoT), and look into the use of the Ansible Content Collection, which is available on Ansible Galaxy. The goal is to show some of the capabilities that make NetBox a terrific tool and why you will Read more about Using NetBox for Ansible Source of Truth[…]
As Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform expands its footprint with a growing customer base, security continues to be an important aspect of organizations’ overall strategy. Red Hat regularly reviews and enhances the foundational codebase to follow better security practices. As part of this effort, we are introducing FIPS 140-2 readiness enablement by means of a Read more about New LibSSH Connection Plugin for Ansible Network Replaces Paramiko, Adds FIPS Mode Enablement[…]
Now that I’ve startled you, no, the network CLI isn’t going away anytime soon, nor are people going to start manipulating XML directly for their network configuration data. What I do want to help you understand is how Ansible can now be used as an interface into automating the pushing and pulling of configuration data Read more about The Network CLI is Dead, Long Live XML! (just kidding, it’s an Ansible+NETCONF+YANG Deep Dive)[…]
On February 10th, The NRE Labs project launched four Ansible Network Automation exercises, made possible by Red Hat and Juniper Networks. This blog post covers job responsibilities of an NRE, the goal of Juniper’s NRE Labs, and a quick overview of new exercises and the concepts Red Hat and Juniper are jointly demonstrating. The intended Read more about Agnostic Network Automation Examples with Ansible and Juniper NRE Labs[…]
Red Hat Ansible Tower offers value by allowing automation to scale in a checked manner – users can run playbooks for only the processes and targets they need access to, and no further. Not only does Ansible Tower provide automation at scale, but it also integrates with several external platforms. In many cases, this means Read more about Ansible + ServiceNow Part 3: Making outbound RESTful API calls to Red Hat Ansible Tower[…]