Ansible Meetup London Talk

How I save myself 30 minutes a day as a network engineer

First delivered at the Ansible London Meetup

Playbooks to backup Cisco routers and switches and push configurations and config templates

Does not work for NXOS but could easily be adjusted to hit NXOS or ASA by changing modules in use

VIDEO

Watch the video to see me walk you through these playbooks. https://youtu.be/MSp0eTDPDQE

My Ansible Network Automation Course

https://learn-network-automation.teachable.com/p/ansible-for-network-engineers

Get started

Clone the repo to your machine

Change the hosts to addresses of your devices

play1.yml will just backup your devices
play2.yml will backup the devices in a date specific format and folder
play3.yml will backup devices

To create Cisco configurations edit /templates/roles/routers/templates/router.j2 You can have your entire cisco configuration in here just add an {{item.xxx}} wherever you want a device specific variable.

Then add the variables in the /templates/roles/routers/vars/main.yml

Ensure your inventory hostnames match the hostnames in the vars file

Any questions just email roger at rogerperkin.co.uk or visit https://www.rogerperkin.co.uk and send me a message

Enjoy!