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Learn Ansible Automation skills from scratch to an advanced level for automating your Network.Gain an in-depth understanding of Ansible Playbook and Task OptionsFor attending this course you don't need any prior coding experience.100% Hands-on demonstration of the concepts using Network Automation UsecasesThe IDE is VS Code and Cisco devices will be used for demonstrating most of the device interactions.(vIOS, IOS-XE)Below are the topics in high levelThe course will be starting with how to setup Lab for Ansible Network Automation PracticeInstall and Setup Ubuntu OS VM for ansibleSetup VSCode for SSH remote developmentAnsible installation in the Python VIrtual EnvironmentAnsible Core and Community difference Inventory and Config file setupYAML File ,Playbook fundamentals and Ansible LintSSH Keybased Authentication to Cisco devices from AnsibleAnsible Vault for encrypting files and variablesDemonstration of Ansible Vault IDgroup_vars and host_vars Handle device specific variables and configurations effectivelyExplore advanced features of Ansible CLIcisco ios_facts and ios_commands module cisco ios_config module explained in detailPaloAlto Firewall Galaxy Collections ExamplesPaloAlto Address Objects, Object Groups and Security Rule automation using AnsibleCisco config diff, parent command, before, after, match and replace optionsios config backup optionsConfiguration backup and save optionCisco ios resource modulescisco interfaces, l3_interfaces and l2_interfaces resource modulecisco ios_user and static_route moduleCLI ParserspyATS, ntc_templates and TextFSM ParsersAnsible Magic Variableshostvars and play_varsset_fact vs vars explainedAnsible Variable precedence explained in detailAnsible filter Pluginsdefault, ternary, dict2items, items2dict filtersto_json, from_json, to_yaml, from_yaml filterszip, combine, map,json_query(using JMES Path) filtersip_address, url and datetime filterslist operations and string manipulation using filtersRegEX FiltersRegex search, find_all and replace filtersJinja2 templates examplejinja2 for loop and include optionjinja2 in ios_config moduleembed code in jinja2 templatelookup Pluginsfile lookup, template lookup pluginsvars, env and pipe lookup pluginsLoops and Conditionals: loops, until and when Play Optionsansible play strategies, forks and serialdebugger for effective troubleshootinghost order, log_pathtags and limit optioncheck_mode Task Optionsdelegate_torun_onceignore_erros and failed whenchanged_when and no_loguse handlers and listen optionblock and rescue for exception handlingassert optionHow to install ansible collections: using galaxy command, requirements file and githubHow to create roles and add tasks to respective directoriesDetailed explanation of ansible include vs importinclude_tasks vs import tasksinclude_role vs import roleimport_playbook modulehow to create ansible custom modulesconvert facts to csv file using custom module which uses python csv in the backendhow to pass module args to custom modulehow to return data using custom moduleREST API from Ansiblehow to use URI Module for REST APIYANG Suite introductionREST API from PostmanConvert POSTMAN REST request to Ansible URI taskInitiate REST - GET, PUT,POST PATCH and DELETE Operations from AnsibleHow to configure Cisco device using REST APIhow to save config using rest APIParse config using REST APIExtra Learning Topic(AWX)Install AWX in Minikube for learningBasics of Ansible execution environment (Podman)

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