How to Implement Jinja2 Templates For Network Automation Workflows in Itential

Jinja2 templating functionality is built into Itential, so you can create templates to translate data and then incorporate them into your end-to-end network automation workflows.

Jinja2 is a popular templating engine in the Python environment. Using both a template and input data, the template will execute custom logic and produce a document of chosen type. For user convenience, Jinja2 template functionality is integrated with Itential, so you can build templates and incorporate them with your automation workflows without leaving the platform.

In this ItentiaLearn demo, see step-by-step how to:
• Understand when to use Jinja2 templates.
• Build a Jinja2 template within the Itential Automation Platform.
• Incorporate a finished Jinja2 template into an automation workflow.

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Chapters
00:00 Introduction & Overview of Demo
00:30 Review of Jinja2 Templates
01:32 Sample Use Case Overview
01:58 Creating a new Jinja2 Template
03:02 Using the Template Builder with Data
03:46 Sample Template Output
04:46 Using the Template in an Automation Workflow

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