The Ansible Arista example

The final playbook example we will look at will be the Arista command module. At this point, we are quite familiar with our playbook syntax and structure. The Arista device can be configured to use transport using cli or eapi, so, in this example, we will use cli.

This is the host file:

[eos-devices]
arista1 ansible_host=192.168.199.158

The playbook is also similar to what we have seen previously:

---
- name: EOS Show Commands
  hosts: "eos_devices"
  gather_facts: false
  connection: local

  vars:
    cli:
      host: "{{ ansible_host }}"
      username: "arista"
      password: "arista"
      authorize: true
      transport: cli

  tasks:
    - name: eos show commands
      eos_command:
        commands:
          - show version | i Arista
        provider: "{{ cli }}"

      register: output...