Network Automation
Is the end nigh for my IP Address spreadsheet? In my last post I mentioned how much I disdained managing IP addresses. Well in this post I am going to show you how I am slowly fighting off the beast that is the IP address management spreadsheet (or whatever you want to call it). The […]
Hope everyone had a great Easter break! You know I have to say this little mini series has been really fun for me, it has also been super easy. I hope if you have access to a Palo Alto and are slightly interested in getting started with moving your network changes to code you start […]
Hey everyone, In my last post I went over how we make individual address objects in a Palo with Ansible. Following up on it, it would only make sense that we put them into a group. Why? Because object groups are amazing! They are a great organizational tool that has existed for many security appliances […]
Hey guys, I know it has been some time since I posted something, I have been quite busy with family, work and studies and I haven’t had really anything that I wanted to post on. However as I have been developing my skills in Python and Ansible, I have come up with some material which […]
Welcome back, there has been a brief delay in the regularity of this post due to simply not knowing a few things and having to learn them. This is precisely the point of this project after all. Now at the start of this project I did state there would be a situation where I would […]
Moving on from the success of the previous playbook, I now needed to deploy changes onto the 1 NXOS 9k virtual switch. The changes that will be deployed here will help you to see and give shape to the network that I am building for my hosts in this made up LAB1 network. With this […]
Wow, what an epic trip this was for me personally putting this playbook together. It actually started off very simple but then I started question myself and say to myself how to I prevent me deploying this kind of change in a real world prod environment and not breaking anything. How can I ensure consistency […]
So the last 6 weeks, have been an incredibly enjoyable and at times frustrating (there were times I was close to giving up and thinking I simply was not smart enough for this!), but ultimately it has been thoroughly rewarding. It is great when all the learning you have put so much effort into starts […]
Network Automation – Ansible Learnings – Week 4 – Configuring Multiple Loopbacks
Continuing from my last post, I am moving onto creating an interface and network on this interface. For the sake of testing and speed, I am creating a loopback interface with a basic /24 network attached to it. Again this is a very static playbook and the point of this post and this playbook is […]