You're reading from Network Automation Cookbook Over 100 recipes to effectively configure and manage network infrastructure with Ansible

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2025

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835887981

Length 566 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Networking

Authors (3):

Christian Adell

Jeffrey Kala

Okasha

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Getting Started with Ansible FREE CHAPTER

2. Why Ansible for Network Automation?

3. Building Blocks of Ansible

4. Advanced Ansible Concepts

5. Part 2: Managing Network Infrastructure with Ansible

6. Building Data Center Networks with Arista

7. Automating a Juniper Network Core Using Ansible

8. Managing Nokia SR Devices Using Ansible

9. Administering a Multi-Vendor Network with NAPALM and Ansible

10. Part 3: Managing Cloud Networking with Ansible

11. Deploying and Operating AWS Networking

12. Deploying and Operating Azure Networking

13. Deploying and Operating GCP Networking

14. Part 4: Integrating Ansible

15. Network Validation with Batfish

16. Building a Network Inventory with Nautobot

17. Simplifying Automation with AWX

18. Event-Driven Automation with Ansible

19. Terraform and Ansible Dancing Together

20. Index

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix - The Lab

Configuring Juniper interfaces

In this recipe, we will configure the interfaces on our Juniper core routers. The attributes that will be configured include the IP address and interface description information. The junos_interface declarative module will not be used in this section; instead, we will add the necessary Juniper templates to our config_generation role. This will demonstrate how developing a role with reusability in mind can vastly speed up a network automation strategy.

Reminder

The code for the Ansible role can be found in https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Network-Automation-Cookbook_2nd_Edition/tree/main/chapters/roles.

To set the stage, the following diagram shows the interface followed by a table with the IP address schema that you will be building out. The diagram provides a logical network diagram for our core network topology, including interface names and logical endpoint connections.