Network Automation Cookbook

Proven and actionable recipes to automate and manage network devices using Ansible

Karim Okasha 지음

Packt(GCO Science) 2020년 04월 17일 출간

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▶Book Description
Network Automation Cookbook is designed to help system administrators, network engineers, and infrastructure automation engineers to centrally manage switches, routers, and other devices in their organization's network. This book will help you gain hands-on experience in automating enterprise networks and take you through core network automation techniques using the latest version of Ansible and Python.

With the help of practical recipes, you'll learn how to build a network infrastructure that can be easily managed and updated as it scales through a large number of devices. You'll also cover topics related to security automation and get to grips with essential techniques to maintain network robustness. As you make progress, the book will show you how to automate networks on public cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure. Finally, you will get up and running with Ansible 2.9 and discover troubleshooting techniques and network automation best practices.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to use Ansible to automate modern network devices and integrate third-party tools such as NAPALM, NetBox, and Batfish easily to build robust network automation solutions.

▶What You Will Learn
- Understand the various components of Ansible
- Automate network resources in AWS, GCP, and Azure cloud solutions
- Use IaC concepts to design and build network solutions
- Automate network devices such as Cisco, Juniper, Arista, and F5
- Use NetBox to build network inventory and integrate it with Ansible
- Validate networks using Ansible and Batfish

▶Key Features
- Use Ansible to automate network infrastructure with the help of step-by-step instructions
- Implement network automation best practices to save cost, avoid critical errors, and reduce downtime
- Deliver a robust automation framework by integrating Ansible with NAPALM, NetBox, and Batfish

▶Who This Book Is For
This Ansible network automation book is for network and DevOps engineers interested in automating complex network tasks. Prior understanding of networking and basic Linux knowledge is required.

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▶TABLE of CONTENTS
1. Building Blocks of Ansible
2. Managing Cisco IOS Devices Using Ansible
3. Automating Juniper Devices in the Service Providers Using Ansible
4. Building Data Center Networks with Arista and Ansible
5. Automating Application Delivery with F5 LTM and Ansible
6. Administering a Multi-Vendor Network with NAPALM and Ansible
7. Deploying and Operating AWS Networking Resources with Ansible
8. Deploying and Operating Azure Networking Resources with Ansible
9. Deploying and Operating GCP Networking Resources with Ansible
10. Network Validation with Batfish and Ansible
11. Building a Network Inventory with Ansible and NetBox
12. Simplifying Automation with AWX and Ansible
13. Advanced Techniques and Best Practices for Ansible

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▶ Preface
Network Automation Cookbook provides an overview of the various topics of network automation and how to use software development practices in order to design and operate different networking solutions. We use Ansible as our framework to introduce the topic of network automation and how to manage different vendor equipment using Ansible. In the first section, we outline how to install and configure Ansible specifically for the purpose of network automation. We will explore how we can use Ansible to manage traditional network solutions from various vendors such as Cisco, Juniper, Arista, and F5. Next, we continue to explore how to utilize Ansible to build and scale network solutions from major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Finally, we outline different supporting open source projects in network automation, such as NetBox, Batfish, and AWX. We outline how to integrate all these tools with Ansible in order to build
a complete framework for network automation.

By the end of this book, you will have a solid foundation on how to integrate Ansible with different vendor equipment and how to build a network automation solution based on Ansible. Further, you will understand how to use various open source projects and how to integrate all these solutions with Ansible to build a robust and scalable network automation framework.

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저자(글) Karim Okasha