topic Re: Ansible resources in Controllers

Ansible resources

WVD — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 22:41:09 GMT

Hey all,

Can anyone recommend any good ansible resources with examples? I'm struggling to find anything decent that actually works. It's taken me a very long time just to get some basic show commands to run. And I've had to use deprecated methods as the examples on Ansible's own documentation don't work for me. I'm working with ASAs here so that might be the reason why there's so little information. I'm surprised Cisco doesn't provide any examples though.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Ansible resources

Claudia de Luna — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 00:37:42 GMT

Without a doubt the best resource I found was Kirk Byers Ansible course. Info below. I troll for good sensible courses and they are either very server/sys admin focused or very simple.

You are 100% correct that there is quite a lot out there using the deprecated models. I tried to go over that in a presentation I did at Interop last year and the companion repo is the first link below, in case its of any use.

I have a series of Ansible repositories that I use to do demos. The Cisco ACI one may also have some examples you can use.

https://github.com/cldeluna/ansible_interop19

https://github.com/cldeluna/cisco_ios

https://github.com/cldeluna/cisco_aci

In case its more of a set up issue, this may be of interest.
https://gratuitous-arp.net/ansible-server-in-docker-for-network-engineers/

Kirk's course which started Sept. 10. Reach out to him if its of interest to you. He is very accommodating and if there is any way to get you in, I'm suspect he will. I know he's been working on updating it so it may be just what you need and trust me..it is worth the money.

https://pynet.twb-tech.com/class-ansible.html

I'm working on getting all of those updated but as you know...time is always in short supply!

Re: Ansible resources

WVD — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 14:10:38 GMT

Greatly appreciate your help again Claudia. I've just reached out to Kirk to see if I can get onto his course. Thanks for the helpful links too!