Hi DevNet folks,
I recently upgraded some of the Nexus 9K series switches and decided to automate the process since they were newly deployed. However, if you have a pair of production switches, you can still use this playbook with the proper precautions. Please ensure that you either create a playbook or conduct manual checks to perform pre and post checks to guarantee Layer2/3 functionality as well as VPCs.
By going through this playbook, you will learn the following:
- nxos command utilities such as json-pretty, grep, and awk
- Backup nxos config and command modules.
- Ansible assert module.
- Ansible Block Rescue/Always module.
- Ansible pause module.
- Ansible wait_for module.
- Ansible tags, vars, var_prompts, and set_facts
Please give it a try this on any lab N9K switch and let me know how it works for you. Reach out to me, if you encounter any issues. You can find the playbook on Github using the following link.
https://github.com/muhammad-rafi/Ansible-Projects/blob/main/nxos_ansible_project/playbooks/n9k_upgrade.yml
