Automating the configuraiton of firewalls' rules and IPSec tunnels

Hi guys,

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I am fairly new (9 mo) at this job at a quite big ISP in Europe. We are really behind with the automation, we have not yet any scripts or automation tools being ran in our day-to-day activity.

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I am trying to change this, I've taken some Python 3 courses and I think I might be able to write a script to configure a new IPSec tunnel or some rules.

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But, still, I am curios. What do you use to automate these particular tasks? Should I also consider Ansible? I am asking because the whole processes of learning something new takes time and I want to ensure that it's the right thing I'm learning.

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Thanks!