Ansible Network Engine and NTC Templates
In this post we will talk about primarily three components that will work together to get structured data out of the command line of a Cisco device. The three pieces are:
Why this Post? #
I’m writing this post because I was initially hesitant to start using the Ansible role originally when I was doing everything pretty well with the generic modules that come available with Ansible. I was challenged to migrate a Python script that was using TextFSM and Netmiko to be in Ansible. So I was originally aware of Ansible Network Engine, but had not done anything with it. So what better time than to put it to practice than when it is needed.