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

Installing the Azure Python SDK

To interact with Azure with Ansible, you need to use Azure’s Ansible collection and the dependent Azure Python libraries.

Following the next steps, you will ensure your Ansible Python environment is ready to go:

Check that the azure.azcollection Ansible collection is installed:

root@cookbook-lab:~/cookbook-lab# ansible-galaxy collection list azure.azcollection
# /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/ansible_collections
Collection         Version
------------------ -------
azure.azcollection 2.7.0

In this case, we suggest upgrading to the latest version (3.0.0) to match the Azure SDK requirements:

root@cookbook-lab:~/cookbook-lab# ansible-galaxy collection install -U azure.azcollection
... output omitted ...
azure.azcollection:3.0.0 was installed successfully