The Ansible Cisco example

Cisco's support in Ansible is categorized by the operating systems IOS, IOS-XR, and NX-OS. We have already seen a number of NX-OS examples, so in this section let's try to manage IOS-based devices.

Our host file will consist of two hosts, ios-r1 and ios-r2:

[ios-devices]
ios-r1 ansible_host=172.16.1.134
ios-r2 ansible_host=172.16.1.135

[ios-devices:vars]
username=cisco
password=cisco

Our playbook, cisco_5.yml, will use the ios_command module to execute arbitrary show commands:

---
- name: IOS Show Commands
  hosts: "ios-devices"
  gather_facts: false
  connection: local

  vars:
    cli:
      host: "{{ ansible_host }}"
      username: "{{ username }}"
      password: "{{ password }}"
      transport: cli

  tasks:
    - name: ios show commands
      ios_command:
        commands:
          - show version | i IOS...