Network automation basics: First playbook

Learn the fundamentals of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for network automation using ansible-navigator.

Ansible Network Automation Basics

The lab objective is to use Ansible Automation to update the configuration of a Cisco CSR router. This exercise will not create an Ansible Playbook, but use an existing one that has been provided.

This exercise will cover:

  • examining an existing Ansible Playbook

  • executing an Ansible Playbook on the command line using the ansible-navigator command

  • check mode (the --check parameter)

  • verbose mode (the --verbose or -v parameter)