Network Automation Series - Ep 7, Jinja templates and static routing

Описание: In this episode we are going to wrap up the deployment of our network automation lab. Today's focus is completing the NAT configuration and static routing to allow our hosts our to the internet.

Ansible lacks a NAT specific module to deploy configurations. This video will show you how to use Jinja2 templates to build a configuration and deploy it using the ios_config module. Once deployed, we'll verify the config and complete static routing. We'll wrap the video up with several demos, to prove we have internet access from our CML Alpine nodes.

00:06 - Overview
00:54 - Template requirements
02:56 - Directory Setup
05:49 - Creating a template
07:43 - Adding new variables
08:20 - Using the Jinja magic! (conditionals)
16:47 - Creating a playbook
18:57 - Testing the template (by creating a file)
20:41 - Modifying the playbook for real testing
28:34 - Static routing
37:38 - Host - Internet verification