Ansible for Network Automation Projects

Join us for this deep-dive session where we move beyond the basics of "Hello World." We will walk through the architecture of a real-world automation project, demonstrating how to organize inventories, modularize code with Roles, and use Jinja2 templates to enforce configuration compliance across multi-vendor networks.

Key Takeaways:
By the end of this session, you will understand:
- Structured Playbooks: How to write clean, idempotent playbooks that are easy to maintain.
- Dynamic Inventory: Moving beyond static hosts files to dynamic, plugin-based inventories.
- The Power of Roles: How to package your code into reusable, shareable units.
- Jinja2 Mastery: Creating flexible configuration templates that adapt to different device types.
- Automated Compliance: How to run "dry-runs" and "diffs" to detect configuration drift before it causes an outage.

Target Audience:
Network Engineers (Cisco/Juniper/Arista)
DevOps Engineers looking to support Network Ops
Infrastructure Architects
SysAdmins transitioning to Network Automation