From the course: Cisco DevNet Associate (200-901) Cert Prep 5: Infrastructure and Automation
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Overview of the Ansible automation tool
From the course: Cisco DevNet Associate (200-901) Cert Prep 5: Infrastructure and Automation
Overview of the Ansible automation tool
- [Instructor] In this and later sections, we will take a look at three of the most popular infrastructure automation tools, Ansible, Puppet and Shift as well as the Cisco orchestration tool called NSO. Let us start with Ansible. Before we dive into Ansible and other automation tools, let's take a moment to go over some of the key and critical concepts in network automation. The first idea is ID potency. ID potency in computer programming means we can have an operation that is applied to the device multiple times without changing the result beyond the initial application. This is important because it provides a safety net for our operations. This safety assurance allows us to build an automation steps in small increments. For example, if we have an operation to turn up the interface on a device, where we run the operation for the first time, the operation might make a change to the interface date by turning up the device…
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