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

Migrating from the CLI to NETCONF

In this recipe, you will learn how to enable the NETCONF protocol on Junos devices. This task is critical since you will use NETCONF in all future recipes to manage the Juniper devices. NETCONF provides several advantages compared to the traditional CLI configuration; for example, configuration management using YANG models allows for a more standardized approach to configuring network devices. Another advantage is the ability to manage configurations using different datastores (e.g., startup, running, and candidate). The candidate datastore allows changes to be prepped ahead of time!

Note

Although not used here, a lot of modern network equipment also supports a RESTCONF interface. RESTCONF supports similar configuration datastores, but simplifies the available operations (via HTTP methods) compared to NETCONF. Also, RESTCONF supports both XML and JSON, versus NETCONF, which supports only XML.

Before you can use NETCONF,...