Ganesh Nalawade

This talk will do a deep dive on how Ansible can be used to assess the operational state of your IT infrastructure (especially network appliances) and effectively take remediation actions as required

This talk will do a deep dive on how Ansible can be used to assess the operational state of your IT infrastructure (especially network appliances) and effectively take remediation actions as required. The following will be demonstrated for both Linux as well as network devices. Collect the current operational state from the remote host and convert it into normalised structure data. Define the desired state criteria in a standard’s based format Validate the current state data against the pre-defined criteria to identify if there is any deviation. Take corrective remediation action as required. Data validation

The talk with give an introduction of Ansible collections and will talk about collection structure and how to deliver Ansible content with collections

The agenda for this talk will be: 1) What are Ansible collections? 2) Why Ansible collections are required? 3) Deep dive with collections (init, create, build, publish) 4) Demo