Creating a network snapshot for Batfish

To allow Batfish to analyze the network using the devices' configuration files, these files need to be structured in a specific order. This makes it easy for the Batfish server to ingest this data.

In this recipe, we will outline how to properly structure and prepare our network configuration files to be consumed by the Batfish service.

Getting ready

The device configuration should already be generated, as demonstrated in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

1. Create a new playbook named pb_batfish_analyis.yml, and add the following...