NANOG's video: Network Automation using Ansible

This will an introductory session on Network Automation using Ansible. Ansible is an open-source software provisioning, configuration management, and application-deployment tool enabling infrastructure as code. Ansible provides a simple way to manage network devices like routers, switches, firewalls etc. This talk will focus on how Ansible can be used to manage configuration data for network devices using network_cli/netconf/httpapi/restonf connection plugins and access the operational state data and easy to understand YAML format. Further, it will discuss how to work with Ansible network collections and extend its capabilities by writing Ansible plugins.