Red Hat Ansible for Network Automation

ideal for

This course is designed for network administrators, network automation engineers, and infrastructure automation engineers who want to learn how to use Ansible to automate the administration, deployment, and configuration management of the network infrastructure of their organization or enterprise.

Objectives

As a result of attending this course, you will be able to use Red Hat Ansible Automation for Networking to write Ansible playbooks and launch them to manage the routers, switches, and other devices in your network infrastructure. You will have experience with using Ansible to automate several common use cases and have a basic understanding of how to write playbooks that can target devices made by different network hardware vendors supported by Red Hat Ansible Automation.

Prerequisite Knowledge

• Experience with network administration, including a solid understanding of TCP/IP, routers, and managed switches

• Familiarity with managing network devices from the command line, preferably with one or more of Cisco IOS, IOS XR, or NX-OS; Juniper JUNOS; Arista EOS; or VyOS

• You will work with text files and run commands in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment. A working knowledge of Linux, including how to edit text files and run commands from the shell, and how to use SSH to log in to remote systems

• Knowledge equivalent to Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) or better is recommended

• Prior Ansible knowledge is not required

Course Program

• Deploy Ansible

• Run commands and plays

• Parameterize Ansible

• Administer Ansible

• Automate simple network operations

• Automate complex operations