Summary

In this chapter, you learned about different remote connection methods and connection variables available in Ansible. After that, you explored Microsoft Windows automation using Ansible. You learned how to connect to a Microsoft Windows machine from Ansible and create a new user account using an Ansible playbook.

You also learned the difference in network automation between Linux and Windows. You explored simple network automation using a VyOS appliance and collected system information using a fact-gathering playbook.

Finally, you learned how to use a Cisco ASA collection and implemented a use case for creating an ACL entry in a Cisco ASA device.

In the next chapter, you will learn how to use Ansible to automate your virtualization and cloud platforms, such as VMware, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform.