Ansible and Cisco IOS Guide

The power of Ansible explained

Prerequisites and detailed instruction for installing Ansible

Leveraging the inventory file to interact with a complex inventory of managed nodes

Creating instruction sets using Playbooks to describe a task policy

Automatically load related vars_files, tasks, handlers, and other Ansible artifacts using roles

Creating reusable modules to perform customized tasks on managed nodes

Levering Ansible utilities to perform tasks from the Command Line

Deploying Cisco-IOS devices as managed nodes and using IOS modules

Creating playbooks to perform advanced task automation in a network environment containing Ciso-IOS devices