Technical requirements

The following are the technical requirements for this chapter:

• A Linux machine for the Ansible control node
• One or more Linux machines as managed nodes with Red Hat repositories configured (if you are using non-RHEL machines, then make sure you have the appropriate repositories configured to get packages and updates)
• One or more Microsoft Windows machines (we used a Windows 2019 server)
• One or more network devices/virtual appliances (for practicing this chapter’s network automation use case)
• Basic administrative knowledge of Microsoft Windows machines, including user creation and package management
• Basic administrative knowledge of network devices, including IP configuration and access configuration

All the Ansible code, playbooks, commands, and snippets for this chapter can be found in this book’s GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Ansible-for-Real-life-Automation/tree/main/Chapter-06.

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