Thursday, January 7, 2021

Does anyone use Ansible + AWX to manage network devices?

Probably one of the most time saver projects I worked on.

We have 50+ remote ASA's + Aruba switches...Man what a time saver

Vendor needs me to allow X port from inside to outside the network on all locations? Np, write out the ASA commands in a yml file, push it to git, import it to AWX, push it out to all the sites. Done within 5 minutes!

Were moving datacenters and I was dreading to setup 50+ new IPsec ikev2 tunnels but now I already have the template of the configuration ready and it's just a matter of pushing it off to all the firewalls. Stuff that would take me hours would now just take about 20 minutes or less.

Best of all is that its open source and free



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