Ansible

With my webinar, you can learn how to apply modern agile methods and tools to the deployment of Cisco SD-WAN topologies. Take a step towards NetDevOps by using Ansible and VIRL to build test environments, create infrastructure-as-code, and automate Day 0, Day 1 and Day 2 configurations. If you miss…

We have all seen the segmentation of people and technologies into what we lovingly refer to as ‘silos.’ Initially, these silos were formed to group together teams with common skill sets, ownership, accountability, etc. The effect that we see from this division into functional groups typi…

My father is a real craftsman.  He always used to tell me whilst I was growing up (and still does to this day :-), “you cannot do all the jobs with the same tool. You would not use a hammer to cut wood, right?” He’s right of course, and the same folk wisdom is true for network automation. As of yet…

Unable to make our SXSW Ansible workshop? Join DevNet for free with this link: developer.cisco.com/join/cfsxsw19 Find the slides from the presentation at the bottom of this post. Contributing to Open Source projects like Ansible can be a daunting endeavor. Even though most Open Source projects have…

How encoding and transport of the data-model gives you power and flexibility In the first blog, I attempted to make the point that the declarative approach of using function-specific modules in Ansible is not scalable. In the second blog, I introduced data models into the conversation to help organi…

Keeping your IT infrastructure operational Before I get into data models, I want to take a slight diversion to incorporate some of the feedback that I received from the first blog. It was pointed out that my use of the ios_config module was “naïve.” I contend that it is more accurate to say that my…

Ansible Contribution and You Ansible is a great tool. While originally built for software provisioning and configuration management Ansible has spread into so many other technologies, for example, networking and compute hardware. Ansible’s Domain Specific Language written in YAML makes it an easy to…

In this blog series we’ll take you beyond the hype and dive more deeply into how and why to automate your network operations. I’ve spent the last couple of years at Red Hat helping customers automate their networks with Ansible. If there is one thing that I’ve learned during that time, it is t…

I’ve been a big fan of automation almost since I discovered computers many years ago. It is my favorite thing about Cisco UCS. Today, guest blogger: Olli Walsdorf, Technical Marketing Engineer, discusses using Ansible with UCS. Olli has more than 20 years of storage experience, working in different…