Intro to Ansible for Automation

In this video, we introduce you to the basic concepts and functionality of Ansible and we see important pieces of Ansible like the Ansible config file, the hosts inventory file, and the playbook.

Then, we demonstrate how to add or update an access control list (ACL) on a router, as well as how to use variables and conditionals in Ansible to create local files.

Finally, we show how to take your Ansible skills to the next level with Ansible-Projects, free Learning Labs and Sandboxes from Cisco DevNet, as well as the (also free) Cisco Code Exchange, where engineers share and borrow code, often using Ansible, for use with Cisco products.

Visit the DevOps GroupHub on the Cisco Community’s Developer Hub:

Links shown in this video:

- DevOps Shop #4: Tools Gold - Sifting Through the Pool of DevOps Tools

- Ansible mains site

- Ansible docs

- Ansible installation

- Ansible configuration

- Follow along with these demos

- Cisco DevNet sandboxes

- Ansible-Projects

- Cisco DevNet Learning Labs

- Ansible and Model-Driven Telemetry Workshop

- Cisco Code Exchange

0:00 - Intro
0:08 - Flashback to DevOps Shop #4: Tools Gold - Sifting Through the Pool of DevOps Tools
0:20 - Description of what will be covered in this video
0:41 - What is Ansible
0:53 - Ansible compatibility
1:16 - Ansible installation
1:45 - Ansible configuration
2:33 - How to follow along to the demos
2:24 - Access Control Lists with Ansible demo
3:18 - File structure for demos, explanation of inventory and playbook
6:16 - Ansible Variables demo
7:36 - Ansible Conditionals demo
9:32 - Creating Local Files with Ansible demo
11:13 - DevNet Always On Sandboxes
11:20 - Ansible-Projects repo
11:38 - Cisco DevNet Learning Labs
12:03 - Cisco DevNet Sandboxes, including with Ansible
12:21 - Cisco Code Exchange
12:42 - Ansible Summary
13:08 - Video Recap
13:44 - Outro, Cisco DevOps forum

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This would be a good summary video but for someone new who has never seen ansible and learning it there are better indepth anisble videos for network automation on YT.