Replacing the static inventory files with the Nautobot Inventory module is the last piece of the puzzle in getting rid of the static group and host vars files. You check out the docs on how to use ...

With nautobot, we can manage what is called “config_context.” We can use this to store specific or generic configuration elements that are hard to find inside the available fields in the nautobot d...

The first thing we need to create is the actual query, and to do that, we can test it from the graphiQL link on the bottom right side of your Nautobot GUI. Nautobot should present you with the G...

So we just walked through building out a couple of YAML files to use with the Ansible Nautobot module. We will use the python Nautobot module to import not just one pod but all six pods created for...

We have built out our roles to deploy our pod. Now lets take a look at how we can replace all of the group_vars, host_vars, and inventory folders and files with a database. To do this we will take ...

We have our access switch and our core switches configured; now, we need to complete the tasks for the router. Tasks (1) Router Configure Layer 3 interfaces as DOWNLINKS to both core ...

Tasks (2) Core switches Configure the following vlans: Users - Vlan 300 Servers - Vlan 350 Guests - Vlan 400 Native Vlan - Vlan 666 ...

We have several tasks to complete the deployment of our pod. We will be breaking each tasks down into its own play. This is called a Role. This workshop Pod will be making use of the Cisco vIOS rou...

Documentation on creating Plays with ansible can be found here. We will be using the Cisco IOS Collection and templates with Jinja2 to create the configurations that will be sent to each device via...

Section 2: Creating the inventory yaml file Ansible inventory Documentation can be found here We will be constructing our inventory file with yaml format. Each pod has a bootstrap configuration ...