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Most network engineers attending Building Network Automation Solutions online course decide to use Ansible to create their first network automation solution. A few of them are described on our blog, you can find many more in our Network Automation Solutions Showcase:

• Automate Remote Site Hardware Refresh Process
• Create IP Multicast Tree Graphs from Operational Data
• Configuration Templating Could Be a Huge Win
• Automate End-to-End Latency Measurements
• Create Network Diagram from LLDP Neighbor Information
• Sample Solution: Automating L3VPN Deployments
• Automating 802.1x (Part One)
• Automation Solution: Create Switch Stack Reports

Solving Interesting Challenges

You might find these tips and tricks useful while trying to master Ansible in network automation environment.

• Collect SSH Keys with an Ansible Playbook
• Creating Ansible Inventory from Vagrant SSH Configuration
• Optimizing Environment Setup in Ansible Playbooks
• Parsing Text Printouts within Ansible Playbooks
• Running Ansible in a Vagrant-Controlled Virtual Machine
• Sample Ansible-Based Network Automation Solutions
• Transforming XML Data in Ansible
• Use FOR-IF Construct in Jinja2 Loops
• Useful Network Automation Tools
• Using NAPALM with Ansible

Does Ansible Make Sense?

As you probably know, Ivan has some strong opinions. Here are some of his Ansible-related ones:

• Network Automation Is Much More than Configuration Management
• How Do I Start Automating Network Device Configurations in an Existing Network?
• Ansible, Chef, Puppet or Salt? Which One Should I Use?
• Paramiko, Netmiko, NAPALM or Nornir?
• Looking for a Tool to Create Device Configurations from Templates
• Network Automation and Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting
• You Don’t Need Programming Skills to Build Network Automation Solutions
• Text Files or Relational Database?
• Measure Twice, Cut Once: Ansible net_interface

Even More Blog Posts

These blog posts could also be interesting:

• Ansible versus Puppet in Initial Device Provisioning
• How Do You Get Information from Network Devices?
• Upgrade Network Device Software with Ansible Playbook
• Not So Fast Ansible, Cisco IOS Can’t Keep Up…
• Collect SSH Keys with Ansible
• Avoid Write-Only Code
• Navigating Complex Data Structures in Ansible Playbooks
• Push Configuration Snippet to a Bunch of Cisco IOS Devices
• Generating OSPF, BGP and MPLS/VPN Configurations from Network Data Model