Breaking up an ansible playbook with tasks, variables, configuration templates and other supporting files is called a role. A role can be used independently, but have to be used within playbook. It has its own directory structure. Roles in ansible are very robust and you can re-use it once created. In …
In my previous post I have shown you what playbook is, how to write and how you can run playbook. In this post I’ll show you another playbook which will be used for managing a Cisco router. I’ll use the below simple topology for this tutorial. (All files …
Backup? Router Configuration!! Can you remember the last backup time of your router configuration? If somebody asks me the same question my answer will be no. Take backup periodically, take backup after and before any changes, store them in a remote location, those are the line I have seen in …
hello everyone. Today I will show you how to login Cisco router using ssh key. We will enable ssh on the router and then generate a key on an Ubuntu Linux server and using that key we will login to our router. The process is easy, lets start. Change the …
