Explore the future of networking with hands-on tutorials, labs, and implementation guides focused on network automation for service provider and enterprise environments. This category is dedicated to showcasing real-world use of tools like Ansible, pyATS, and Python to streamline operational workflows, eliminate human error, and scale configuration changes across Cisco IOS-XR and IOS-XE devices. Whether you’re automating interface provisioning, validating BGP sessions, deploying Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP), or writing reusable automation frameworks, you’ll find in-depth guides, troubleshooting insights, and scalable examples to build confidence in automating both traditional and next-gen networks.
Keywords: network automation, Cisco automation, IOS XR, IOS XE, ZTP, service provider automation, Python for networking, pyATS, Ansible, config management
Ansible Workbook 05 – Multi-Vendor Ansible Configuration for Cisco and Juniper Welcome to Workbook 05 in my Ansible series. In this session, I’m moving beyond basic device automation and tackling multi-vendor environments, focusing on Ansible… Read More »Workbook 05 Ansible Configuration for Cisco and Juniper Loops and With Statements
lets have a blast with automating server configuration In this post, we’ll cover the fourth lab in the Ansible series, focusing our routers and automating server configuration for NTP (Network Time Protocol). This lab introduces… Read More »Ansible Lab 04 Automating Server Configuration and Routers NTP
Automating Network Configuration with Ansible In this post, we’ll dive into the third lab of our Ansible automation series, where we will be automating network configuration, namely IPv4 address configuration for edge and main routers.… Read More »Ansible Lab 03 IP Address Configuration and Loopbacks
Ansible Lab 2: Validating Router Connectivity and Static Routing with Ansible Automation Welcome to Lab 2 in the Ansible Automation series. In this lab, we’re building on the basics covered in Lab 1 and taking… Read More »Ansible Lab 2, Static Routing and Ansible AD-HOC Commands
In the past decade, network automation has evolved from a niche convenience to a core capability in every modern data centre, service provider, and enterprise IT environment. If you’re a network engineer, systems administrator, DevOps… Read More »Introduction to Automation and some Network Automation Platforms
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