Anas Tarsha presented on using Ansible for network automation. Ansible is an open source automation tool that is agentless and uses simple YAML files called playbooks to execute tasks sequentially. It can be used to generate device configurations, push configurations, collect running configs, upgrade devices, and more. Ansible modules run Python code directly on network devices to perform tasks. The demo showed using Ansible modules like ping, ios_command, and junos_command to execute show commands and change the hostname on both IOS and Junos devices. Additional resources were provided to learn more about using Ansible for network automation.
What Is Ansible? | How Ansible Works? | Ansible Tutorial For Beginners | DevO...Simplilearn
This presentation on Ansible will help you understand why Ansible is needed, what is Ansible, Ansible as a pull configuration tool, Ansible architecture, Ansible playbook, Ansible inventory, how Ansible works, Ansible tower and you will also see a use case on how Hootsuite used Ansible. Increasing team productivity and improving business outcomes have now become easy with Ansible. Ansible is a simple, popular, agent-free tool in the automation domain. Ansible is a tool that allows you to create and control three key areas within the operations environment of software development lifecycle. The first one is IT automation which allows you to write instructions to automate the IT professional's work that you would typically do manually in the past, the second is configuration management which allows you to maintain consistency of all systems in the infrastructure and the third is automatic deployment which allows you to deploy applications automatically on a variety of environments. Now let us get started and understand Ansible and it's architecture.
Below topics are explained in this Ansible presentation:
1. Why Ansible?
2. What is Ansible?
3. Ansible - Pull configuration tool
4. Ansible architecture
5. Playbook
6. Inventory
7. Working of Ansible
8. Ansible tower
9. Use case by Hootsuite
Simplilearn's DevOps Certification Training Course will prepare you for a career in DevOps, the fast-growing field that bridges the gap between software developers and operations. You’ll become en expert in the principles of continuous development and deployment, automation of configuration management, inter-team collaboration and IT service agility, using modern DevOps tools such as Git, Docker, Jenkins, Puppet and Nagios. DevOps jobs are highly paid and in great demand, so start on your path today.
Who should take this course?
DevOps career opportunities are thriving worldwide. DevOps was featured as one of the 11 best jobs in America for 2017, according to CBS News, and data from Payscale.com shows that DevOps Managers earn as much as $122,234 per year, with DevOps engineers making as much as $151,461. DevOps jobs are the third-highest tech role ranked by employer demand on Indeed.com but have the second-highest talent deficit.
1. This DevOps training course will be of benefit the following professional roles:
2. Software Developers
3. Technical Project Managers
4. Architects
5. Operations Support
6. Deployment engineers
7. IT managers
8. Development managers
Learn more at: https://www.simplilearn.com/
● Fundamentals
● Key Components
● Best practices
● Spring Boot REST API Deployment
● CI with Ansible
● Ansible for AWS
● Provisioning a Docker Host
● Docker&Ansible
https://github.com/maaydin/ansible-tutorial
What Is Ansible? | How Ansible Works? | Ansible Tutorial For Beginners | DevO...Simplilearn
This presentation on Ansible will help you understand why Ansible is needed, what is Ansible, Ansible as a pull configuration tool, Ansible architecture, Ansible playbook, Ansible inventory, how Ansible works, Ansible tower and you will also see a use case on how Hootsuite used Ansible. Increasing team productivity and improving business outcomes have now become easy with Ansible. Ansible is a simple, popular, agent-free tool in the automation domain. Ansible is a tool that allows you to create and control three key areas within the operations environment of software development lifecycle. The first one is IT automation which allows you to write instructions to automate the IT professional's work that you would typically do manually in the past, the second is configuration management which allows you to maintain consistency of all systems in the infrastructure and the third is automatic deployment which allows you to deploy applications automatically on a variety of environments. Now let us get started and understand Ansible and it's architecture.
Below topics are explained in this Ansible presentation:
1. Why Ansible?
2. What is Ansible?
3. Ansible - Pull configuration tool
4. Ansible architecture
5. Playbook
6. Inventory
7. Working of Ansible
8. Ansible tower
9. Use case by Hootsuite
Simplilearn's DevOps Certification Training Course will prepare you for a career in DevOps, the fast-growing field that bridges the gap between software developers and operations. You’ll become en expert in the principles of continuous development and deployment, automation of configuration management, inter-team collaboration and IT service agility, using modern DevOps tools such as Git, Docker, Jenkins, Puppet and Nagios. DevOps jobs are highly paid and in great demand, so start on your path today.
Who should take this course?
DevOps career opportunities are thriving worldwide. DevOps was featured as one of the 11 best jobs in America for 2017, according to CBS News, and data from Payscale.com shows that DevOps Managers earn as much as $122,234 per year, with DevOps engineers making as much as $151,461. DevOps jobs are the third-highest tech role ranked by employer demand on Indeed.com but have the second-highest talent deficit.
1. This DevOps training course will be of benefit the following professional roles:
2. Software Developers
3. Technical Project Managers
4. Architects
5. Operations Support
6. Deployment engineers
7. IT managers
8. Development managers
Learn more at: https://www.simplilearn.com/
● Fundamentals
● Key Components
● Best practices
● Spring Boot REST API Deployment
● CI with Ansible
● Ansible for AWS
● Provisioning a Docker Host
● Docker&Ansible
https://github.com/maaydin/ansible-tutorial
Hands On Introduction To Ansible Configuration Management With Ansible Comple...SlideTeam
Hands On Introduction To Ansible Configuration Management With Ansible Complete Deck is designed for the upper and mid-level management. Take advantage of the informative visuals of this PPT slideshow to elucidate the application deployment tool. With the help of our intuitive PowerPoint template deck, explain the advantages of the Ansible automation tool. This viewer-friendly PPT theme is perfect to elaborate on the architecture of Ansible software. This is because of the state-of-the-art diagrams that simplify the explanation. Consolidate the characteristics and capabilities of Ansible applications such as configuration management and cloud provisioning. This PowerPoint presentation features an Ansible installation flowchart for an organization. Employ the neat tabular format to compile the differences between Ansible and Puppet. This will assist your organization to implement Ansible and its configuration in an effective manner. Hit the download icon and begin instant personalization. https://bit.ly/3mLQJtJ
Yesterday I gave presentation on Ansible and it was successful . It give basic understanding of playbook and an example implementation of jboss application from scratch
Ansible is tool for Configuration Management. The big difference to Chef and Puppet is, that Ansible doesn't need a Master and doesn't need a special client on the servers. It works completely via SSH and the configuration is done in Yaml.
These slides give a short introduction & motivation for Ansible.
We've added the presentation used by John Walter, Solution Architect for Red Hat's Training and Certification team, from our Accelerating with Ansible webinar. He discussed the emergence of radically simple Ansible automation and answered questions from attendees. Learn how Ansible automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs. Also learn how Ansible is designed for multi-tier deployments from day one and how Ansible models your IT infrastructure by describing how all your systems inter-relate, rather than just managing one system at a time.
Introduction à Ansible, ses parts de marché, ses partenaires, ses utilisations dans la configuration de postes et le développement devops automatisé.
Présentation en français, libre d'utilisation, cible grand public.
->Introduction
->>What is Ansible?
->>Ansible history
->Basic concepts
->>Inventory
->>Playbook
->>Role
->>Module
->>Plugin
->Diving into Ansible roles
->>Getting started
->>Create a role
->>Roles under the hood
->>How to use roles?
This presentation starts with an introduction to the rationale behind automated deployments in Continuous Delivery and DevOps. Then, I compare agent-based architectures, such as Chef and Puppet with the agentless architecture of the server orchestration engine Ansible. The presentation concludes with an automated deployment of Dynatrace into a simulated production environment.
Hands On Introduction To Ansible Configuration Management With Ansible Comple...SlideTeam
Hands On Introduction To Ansible Configuration Management With Ansible Complete Deck is designed for the upper and mid-level management. Take advantage of the informative visuals of this PPT slideshow to elucidate the application deployment tool. With the help of our intuitive PowerPoint template deck, explain the advantages of the Ansible automation tool. This viewer-friendly PPT theme is perfect to elaborate on the architecture of Ansible software. This is because of the state-of-the-art diagrams that simplify the explanation. Consolidate the characteristics and capabilities of Ansible applications such as configuration management and cloud provisioning. This PowerPoint presentation features an Ansible installation flowchart for an organization. Employ the neat tabular format to compile the differences between Ansible and Puppet. This will assist your organization to implement Ansible and its configuration in an effective manner. Hit the download icon and begin instant personalization. https://bit.ly/3mLQJtJ
Yesterday I gave presentation on Ansible and it was successful . It give basic understanding of playbook and an example implementation of jboss application from scratch
Ansible is tool for Configuration Management. The big difference to Chef and Puppet is, that Ansible doesn't need a Master and doesn't need a special client on the servers. It works completely via SSH and the configuration is done in Yaml.
These slides give a short introduction & motivation for Ansible.
We've added the presentation used by John Walter, Solution Architect for Red Hat's Training and Certification team, from our Accelerating with Ansible webinar. He discussed the emergence of radically simple Ansible automation and answered questions from attendees. Learn how Ansible automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs. Also learn how Ansible is designed for multi-tier deployments from day one and how Ansible models your IT infrastructure by describing how all your systems inter-relate, rather than just managing one system at a time.
Introduction à Ansible, ses parts de marché, ses partenaires, ses utilisations dans la configuration de postes et le développement devops automatisé.
Présentation en français, libre d'utilisation, cible grand public.
->Introduction
->>What is Ansible?
->>Ansible history
->Basic concepts
->>Inventory
->>Playbook
->>Role
->>Module
->>Plugin
->Diving into Ansible roles
->>Getting started
->>Create a role
->>Roles under the hood
->>How to use roles?
This presentation starts with an introduction to the rationale behind automated deployments in Continuous Delivery and DevOps. Then, I compare agent-based architectures, such as Chef and Puppet with the agentless architecture of the server orchestration engine Ansible. The presentation concludes with an automated deployment of Dynatrace into a simulated production environment.
Introduces Ansible as DevOps favorite choice for Configuration Management and Server Provisioning. Enables audience to get started with using Ansible. Developed in Python which only needs YAML syntax knowledge to automate using this tool.
Presented at All Things Open, Raleigh NC, October 2014. Why do people love Ansible for automation? Good question! We walked through several Ansible use cases.
Better Network Management Through Network ProgrammabilityCisco Canada
As we enter the age of network programmability the data models, protocols, and tools provided by a programmable network can greatly improve and simplify network management tasks. Configuration and operational data can be read and set regardless of the underlying device. Errors are properly reported to ensure reliable delivery of data. Connections are secure and robust. Data is more intelligently extracted. This presentation will explore how tools like NETCONF, YANG, as well as Cisco's Embedded Event Manager, onePK APIs, and embedded Python scripting can radically improve network management applications by offering visibility and provisioning power throughout the network stack. For more information please visit our website here: http://www.cisco.com/web/CA/index.html
Network Automation (Bay Area Juniper Networks Meetup)Alejandro Salinas
Network Automation Presentation at the Bay Area Juniper Networks Meetup. Here I present three stories with regards to network automation at Groupon, increasing in complexity as we go through and also touching on some of the process/management challenges.
Flexible, simple deployments with OpenStack-AnsibleMajor Hayden
I gave this talk at the OpenStack Austin Meetup on June 20, 2016. The talk covers the reasons why OpenStack-Ansible exists and the value that it brings for production OpenStack deployments.
How to use Ansible to automate your applications in AWS. What is Ansible and why is it different? How to control cloud deployments securely and how to control AWS resources using dynamic inventory and tags.
Ansible 2.0 - How to use Ansible to automate your applications in AWS.Idan Tohami
- How to use Ansible to automate your applications in AWS.
- What is Ansible and why is it different?
- How to control cloud deployments securely
- How to control AWS resources using dynamic inventory and tags.
Ansible 2.0 - How to use Ansible to automate your applications in AWS.Idan Tohami
- How to use Ansible to automate your applications in AWS.
- What is Ansible and why is it different?
- How to control cloud deployments securely
- How to control AWS resources using dynamic inventory and tags.
RTP NPUG: Ansible Intro and Integration with ACIJoel W. King
Ansible is one of the newer and more exciting automation toolsets for networking. Ansible (unlike Puppet and Chef) is agentless, which makes it significantly easier to automate existing devices that may not have an agent installed – such as many networking devices.
Networks are evolving from hundreds or thousands of individual devices to the Software-Defined Network paradigm of a single fabric under a central controller. The GUI on top of an SDN controller isn’t sufficient and will still need automation.
This presentation describes how Ansible can add value to configuration management of a Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) infrastructure.
Awareness presentation on the integration of Network Operations into DevOps and using tools like Ansible and UCS director to automate network operations.
Ansible- Durham Meetup: Using Ansible for Cisco ACI deploymentJoel W. King
Networks are evolving from hundreds or thousands of individual devices to the Software-Defined Network paradigm of a single fabric under a central controller.
The GUI on top of an SDN controller isn't sufficient and we will still need automation. This presentation describes how Ansible can add value to configuration management of a Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) infrastructure. It demonstrates how Ansible modules can use the northbound REST API interface of the Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC).
Ansible 101 - Presentation at Ansible STL MeetupJeff Geerling
Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps, demonstrates basic Ansible usage on the Dramble, a cluster of six Raspberry Pi 2 computers.
This presentation was delivered on July 8, 2015, at the Ansible St. Louis meetup, at Riot Games in Clayton, MO.
Ansiblefest 2018 Network automation journey at robloxDamien Garros
In December 2017, Roblox’s network was managed in a traditional way without automation.
To sustained its growth, the team had to deploy 2 datacenters, a global network and multiple point of presence around the world in few months, the only solution to be able to achieve that was to automate everything.
6 months later, the team has made tremendous progress and many aspects of the network lifecycle has been automated from the routers, switches to the load balancers.
Synopsis
This talk is a retrospective of Roblox’s journey into Network automation:
How we got started and how we automated an existing network.
How we organized the project around Github and an DCIM/IPAM solution (netbox),
How Docker helped us to package Ansible and create a consistent environment.
How we managed many roles and variations of our design in single project
How we have automated the provisioning of our F5 Load Balancers.
For each point, we’ll cover what was successful, what was more challenging and what limitations we had to deal with.
How to use Ansible to go faster when creating AWS resources, building servers, and deploying apps. This talk focuses on how AWS developers and admins can use simple Ansible scripts to rapidly create AWS resources including VPCs, security groups and instances, then configure new development and production servers, and deploy their apps. No more "snowflake servers"!
(Click 2nd slide for video) Deploy PHP apps faster in 2017. This talk focuses on how PHP developers can use simple Ansible scripts to rapidly configure new dev and production servers from scratch, and deploy their apps. No more "snowflake servers"!
This is a general introduction to DevOps essentials and Ansible, with a few extras for PHP developers, including some best practice tips and overview of two major Ansible-based PHP projects, Drupal-VM and Trellis (modern WordPress setup).
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
2. Anas Tarsha
• Network/Cloud Architect, CCIE
• Areas of focus: data center, cloud, and network
automation
• BANOG founder & organizer
• Follow me on Twitter @AnasTarsha
• Blog: AnasTarsha.com
3. Agenda
• About Ansible
• Use Cases
• How Ansible Works?
• Install Ansible
• Run Ansible
• Live Demos
4. What Is Ansible?
• IT Automation and configuration management tool
• Emerged in 2012 to initially deploy Linux
applications; support for networking modules was
added in release 2.x
• Open source; code available on Github
• Often compared to Chef, Puppet, and SaltStack
5. Why Ansible?
• Agentless and extensible
• You don’t need to be a programmer to get started
• Saves time (maybe)
• Speed, but do you care?
• Predictable outcome; reduces human error
6. Ansible Use Cases
• Generating device configurations
• Saving and collecting running device
configurations
• Pushing out configurations to the network
• Upgrading devices
7. How Does Ansible Work?
Ansible
Control Host
Inventory File
sw1
r1
fw1
Network
Device
Playbook
play 1
hosts: all
- task 1
- task 2
SSH
Netconf
eAPI
NX-API
Python code
executed here
8. Install Ansible
• Easy to install using utilities like pip, yum, apt
• Runs only on Linux-based machines
• Official Install Guide:
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_installation.html
9. Ansible Playbooks
• Describe a policy you want to enforce or tasks you want o execute on your
devices
• Expressed in YAML
• “We use YAML because it is easier for humans to read and write than other
common data formats like XML or JSON” — ansible.com
• Each playbook can have a play or more and each play can have one task or more
• Tasks are executed sequentially
- name: example playbook
hosts: junos
tasks:
- tasks you want to automate
10. Ansible Modules
• They do the actual work in playbook; take arguments
• Mostly written in Python and return JSON data
• Core modules come installed with Ansible; non-core modules can be installed manually
• Run in playbook, but can run single module from command line
• Use ansible-doc module_name command for help
• Ansible Networking Modules http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/list_of_network_modules.html
• Example:
- name: collect default set of facts and configuration in XML & JSON format
junos_facts:
config: yes
config_format: xml
11. Run Ansible
1. Create an inventory file and define your devices:
[ios]
router1 ansible_host=192.168.0.201
switch1 ansible_host=192.168.0.203
[junos]
router2 ansible_host=192.168.0.130
2. Create a playbook:
- name: ping Google’s DNS from the device
hosts: ios
tasks:
- ios_command:
commands: ping 8.8.8.8
….. <omitted>
3. Run the playbook: ansible-playbook myPlaybook.yml
Sample inventory file:
2 groups, total of 3
network devices defined
Sample playbook:
Include plays and tasks
to execute
12. Live Demos
• Vagrant running on macOS Sierra to provision the
host VM
• Ansible 2.2 running on Ubuntu 14.4 LTS
• Cisco CSR 1000v and Juniper vSRX
• SSH is enabled on CSR; Netconf is enabled on
vSRX
17. Demo 5:
show_arp_result_junos.yml
---
- hosts: junos
tasks:
- junos_command:
commands: show arp
provider: "{{ netconf }}"
register: result
- debug: var=result
junos module with
required arguments
18. Additional Resources
• Network Automation with Ansible, report by Jason Edelman (free,
login required)
https://www.oreilly.com/learning/network-automation-with-ansible
• Up and Running with Ansible (free eBook)
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/
QmTJaLdhUW6jTdXGFoqv7wZe5KguBi5F2u4ihBdrUMVPhw
• Ivan Pepeljak’s Blog http://ipspace.net
• Learn Linux: video training from safaribooksonline.com or
lynda.com or pluralsight.com
