Automate Networks. Build Your Future.
Ansible for Network Engineers is a comprehensive, hands-on course that teaches you how to automate network infrastructure using Ansible and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles. You’ll progress from Ansible fundamentals to advanced multi-vendor automation, Jinja2 templating, NETCONF/RESTCONF APIs, Git-based configuration management, dynamic inventories, and enterprise-grade automation workflows used in modern network operations.
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Ansible For Network Engineers:
Design and build scalable network automation solutions using Ansible and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
Write, understand, troubleshoot, and optimize Ansible playbooks, roles, and automation workflows.
Automate multi-vendor network environments across Cisco IOS, IOS-XR, NX-OS, and Juniper Junos.
Leverage CLI and API-based automation using SSH, NETCONF, RESTCONF, and YANG.
Build production-ready automation pipelines with Jinja2 templating, Git, dynamic inventories.
Implement idempotent, desired-state network automation to reliably deploy, validate, back up, and restore network configurations.
Ansible for Network Engineers – Prerequisites
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No prior Python programming experience is required.
Basic understanding of networking concepts such as IP addressing, routing, switching, VLANs, and device configuration.
Familiarity with the Cisco IOS CLI (or any network device CLI) is recommended.
A Windows, macOS, or Linux computer capable of installing Python and Visual Studio Code.
Real-World Projects You Will Build
Deploy VLANs to 300+ Devices
Network Backup Automation
Cisco & Juniper Automation
Rest Api Automation
Dynamic Inventory System
Network Compliance Tool
What You'll Learn?
- What is Ansible?
- Benefits of Managing Devices with Ansible over Manually.
- High Level Ansible Components.
- Ansible vs Other Similar Software.
- Ansible Important versions and update.
Ansible Installation
- PING Module
- File Module
- The Ansible Configuration File
- The Ansible Inventory File (INI and YAML)
- Host Groups and Group of Groups
- The concept of Specificity
- Different options in YAML and how Python interacts with YAML Files
Ansible Components
- Overall Components
- Playbooks (In-Depth Structuring)
- Installing Collections and requirements.yaml
Ansible Directory Structures
Network Automation with Ansible – The Basics
- Setting up the Inventory File
- Setting Up the Config File
- Setting Up the Group Level Variables File
- Setting Up the Group Level Variables File
- Some important Ad-Hoc commands
- Creating our First Playbook
- Fact Gathering: Multi-Facets and Modifying Playbooks accordingly
- Playbook: Exploring ios_facts module.
- Playbook: Using Gathered Facts to run tasks conditionally.
- Playbook: Archive/Save command or Ansible Outputs to file.
- Basic Cisco IOS Config Management
- Saving Configs: The save_when Flag
- The concept of Idempotency
- Checking out the check mode and verbose output
- set_fact module, lookup plugin and built-in filters
- Ansible debugger tool to debug playbooks.
- Device Configs with Resource Modules
- Using host variables(host_vars) to create configs
- Module level options to shorten playbooks.
- Different Options Available in Jinja Templates and how Python interacts with Jinja2 Files
Some other popular Network OSes’
- Some more concepts(Ansible Vault etc.) and 3 N-OSes’ covered
- Juniper Junos (juniper.device collection)
- IOS-XR (cisco.iosxr collection)
- NXOS (cisco.nxos collection)
Infrastructure as Code – The Basics using Ansible Roles.
- Understanding the Ansible Roles Philosophy
- Ansible Roles: Directory Structure
- Network Topology Explanation and Requirements for Deploying Ansible Roles
- Ansible Roles Execution Flow.
- Testing Roles, Playbooks and Plays with Tags.
API Based Automation – NETCONF and RESTCONF
- A Refresher: API
- A Refresher: NETCONF
- A Refresher: YANG
- Setting up the Ansible Environment for NETCONF Interaction with the device
- ‘get-config’ operation
- ‘edit-config’ operation to apply VRF configs
- ‘save-config’ operation
- A Refresher: RESTCONF
- Applying and Saving VRF config using RESTCONF by restructuring the host_vars file.
- Understanding the problem with the previous solution
- Steps to solve the problem
- Understanding Set Theory, Python Sets and Applying it to our scenario
- Using Custom Filters in Ansible.
- Using TextFSM templates to extract the required info from CLI outputs.
- Using extracted info to create new configs.
- Bringing device configs completely in-sync with the desired state.
- Setting up Git and Git Project Repository.
- Understanding the complete use-case and Workflow.
- Backup(local + Git) and “True” Restore of device state.
- Building the use case and all its components end to end.
- Working with Dynamic Inventories using Nautobot.
- Credential Management using Hashi Corp Vault.
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