Network Automation Cookbook

Take your network automation skills to the next level by following detailed recipes outlining how to manage network devices from different vendors like Cisco, Juniper and Arista effectively using Ansible

Key Features

• Step-by-step instructions to automate network Infrastructure using Ansible
• Effectively model and describe Network Infrastructure using Ansible in various environments across Cloud, Data Center and Service Provider Networks
• Integrate Ansible with several 3rd party tools like NAPALM, NetBox and Batfish to deliver a robust automation framework

Book Description

Network Automation Cookbook is designed for system administrators, network engineers, or infrastructure automation engineers interested in using network automation to centrally manage the switches, routers, and other devices in their organization’s network infrastructure.

The book begins by reviewing the basic Ansible concepts and then explains how to use Ansible to automate common network tasks across various vendor equipment in different environments like enterprise, data center and service providers.Then, we move to explain how to automate networks on the cloud from providers like AWS, GCP and Azure..

By the end of this book, you should be comfortable in using Ansible in automating network devices as well as using various 3rd party tools like NAPALM, NetBox and Batfish to build robust network automation solutions.

What you will learn

• Understand the various components of Ansible
• Using infrastructure as code concepts in the design and build of network solutions
• Using Ansible in automating network devices like Cisco, Juniper, Arista and F5
• Using Ansible to automate network resources in AWS, GCP and Azure cloud solutions
• How to use NetBox for network inventory and how to integrate it with Ansible
• How to validate network using Ansible and Batfish

Who This Book Is For

This book is ideal for network engineers and devops engineers who would like to automate common network tasks. A good amount of network and basic Linux knowledge is required.