In an earlier post I
covered the differences between ios_config and cli_config. However I did not cover what the
difference was between ios_command and cli_command. Most of the items covered there remain the
same. So this will be a post that mostly gets straight to it and sees what the difference is.
As I restarted looking at how I'm continuing my education on the Network Automation and certification realm I asked the question "How are you simulating your network environment?" At the same time there has been thought on the idea of leveraging cloud resources to gain experience there.
In this post I'm going to be taking a deeper dive into the new in Ansible 2.8 IOS BGP module. This may be one of the more complex modules to date and I'll try to make it as simple as possible.
Today we are taking a look at the newest module out for Cisco ASA Ansible module - asa_og. This one is particularly exciting for the configurations that are being managed heavily with Object Groups on firewalls. I'm particularly excited to review the asa_og module, time to dig in.
Today will be a touch shorter post, but it is good to be back at it. In this post I will be taking a quick look around at the asa_command module, as we start down the path with looking at the ASA modules in Ansible. This is spurned on a little bit by Ansible 2.8 coming out with an Object Group specific module. I will be looking into that further in a future post.
Today I'm going to take a look at a method to be able to save the configuration of a Cisco device to NVRAM (copy run start). I will be taking a look at multiple Cisco platforms to save changes done during an Ansible Playbook to NVRAM. There are options to save the configuration on every change within the modules such as ios_config or cli_config, however, this can slow down the execution of your playbook.
Update: ios_interface is to be deprecated as of Ansible 2.13
In this post I will be taking a deeper look at the ios_interface module. This module is used to configure individual interfaces on a Cisco IOS device. The documentation for the module is located here. In this module I did have to dig into the actual Python file, and that is located here.
Back to it finally. Going to take a look at the Ansible module ios_vlan. The purpose of this is to provide a declarative module for managing VLANs on IOS devices. In this I will be using IOSv-L2 images. There are a few interesting quirks (as I will call it) within the parameters for the module.