Beginner's guide to net devops with cisco devnet and ansible
- 1. Sean Cavanaugh Technical Marketing Manager, Ansible seanc@redhat.com Beginner's Guide to NetDevOps with Cisco DevNet and Ansible Hank Preston Developer Evangelist, Cisco hapresto@cisco.com
- 2. WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY 2.5 Announcement Red Hat Summit Ansible Automates Ansiblefest 2018 NetDevOps with Cisco’s Hank Preston - Cisco IOS-XE - Cisco NX-OS - Cisco ACI - What to do next? Q/A
- 3. Installation Directions: docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html Ansible 2.5 Porting Guide: docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.5/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.5.html Ansible 2.5 Networking Features Blog: www.ansible.com/blog/coming-soon-networking-features-in-ansible-2.5 Ansible 2.5 has launched network_cli and netconf are top level connection methods!
- 4. Look, Feel and Operate like Ansible Provider method is no longer needed --- - hosts: rtr1 connection: network_cli remote_user: admin become: yes become_method: enable tasks: - name: Backup Configuration ios_config: backup: yes
- 5. For more information or to register visit: ansible.com/automates Washington D.C. April 19th, 2018 Tokyo, Japan April 24, 2018 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia April 19th, 2018
- 6. April 30- May 4 Booth 1120
- 7. Hybrid Cloud Network Interconnect with Ansible Steven Carter, Principal Solutions Architect Peter Sprygada, Distinguished Engineer Tuesday, May 8 @ 11:45AM May 8-10 Top 3 F5 BIG-IP and Ansible Use Cases Eric Mcleroy, Sr. Solutions Architect Wednesday, May 9 @ 4:30PM
- 8. Booth 849
- 9. August 13-16, Boston, MA
- 10. October 2-3
- 11. © 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public © 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public • Ansible + Cisco Scope • Demo: NetDevOps Configuration Management with Ansible • What to do next! Review
- 12. © 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public • ACI http://bit.ly/ansible-aci • AireOS http://bit.ly/ansible-aireos • ASA http://bit.ly/ansible-asa • IOS http://bit.ly/ansible-ios • IOS XR http://bit.ly/ansible-iosxr • NX OS http://bit.ly/ansible-nxos • NETCONF http://bit.ly/ansible-netconf • NSO http://bit.ly/ansible-nso • UCS http://bit.ly/ansible-ucs What can you do with Ansible + Cisco?
- 13. © 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public • Physical Topology • “Core” – IOS XE Routers • “Distribution” – NX-OS Switches • “Access” – NX-OS Switches • Network has been cabled already • Management access to devices enabled • No other configuration completed Starting Network Topology
- 14. © 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public • Layer 3 Links between Core/Dist • OSPF Area 0 Routing Configured • Distribution configured for VPC Domain • Layer 2 port-channel trunk to access • Set of VLANs Configured • SVIs at Distribution with HSRP Configured Desired Network Configuration
- 15. © 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public • Inventory File • List network devices • Connection details • Logically grouped for configuration • Host/Group Variable Files • Device specific details • General group details • Ansible Roles • Align to network roles • Ansible Playbook • Run roles against relevant groups Use our Ansible Mastery!
- 16. © 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public • Network Policy: Bridge Domains, VRFs, etc • Application Policy: App Profiles, EPGs, Contracts, etc ACI Application Policy with Ansible
- 17. © 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public • Resources • Network Automation with Ansible (ansible.com) • Ansible Network Modules (ansible.com) • Networking Support Docs (ansible.com) • Do the Demo Yourself! • https://github.com/hpreston/netdevops_demos • DevNet Learning Labs • Introduction to Ansible • Using Ansible with NX-OS Devices • Introduction to ACI and Ansible • Home Lab: Using Ansible from your Desktop OS • Blogs and Videos • What does "Network as Code" Mean? • Automating Cisco ACI with Ansible Eliminates Repetitive Day-to-Day Tasks • NetDevOps Video Module What do do next?
- 18. © 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Got more questions? Stay in touch! hapresto@cisco.com @hfpreston http://github.com/hpreston @CiscoDevNet facebook.com/ciscodevnet/ http://github.com/CiscoDevNet Hank Preston developer.cisco.com