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Demo: Deploy Application

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Table of Contents

Objective

Demonstrate managing the VTY ACL on a Cisco router.

What business problem is solved?

  • speed to market: Reduce the time needed to make changes to Cisco configs.
  • reduce human error: Automation of routine manual processes
  • reduce complexity: Allows one Network Engineer to update multiple devices at once. Automate and test once and allow all users access to deploy Ansible Jobs.
  • enforce policy: Ansible ensures every device has the same config.

Features show cased

  • Push button deployment

For description of these and other features of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform please refer to the features README

Guide

  1. Verify rtr1 config

    ssh to rtr1 from the workshop bastion and perform a show run on the router. Verify that there is no VTY ACL on the router.

  2. Login to Ansible Platform UX

  3. Navigate to Templates

    job templates

  4. Click the rocket next to Cisco IOS VTY ACL config audit/remediation to launch the Job

    rocket launch

  5. The job will launch and update the VTY ACL on rtr1.

  6. What is happening:

    • Job has started executed in the background. The user can navigate off this page and the job will continue to execute.
    • On the left is the Job Details Pane labeled simply with DETAILS. This information is logged and tells you who, what, when and how.
      • who - who launched the job, in this example is the admin user
      • what - the project and Ansible Playbook used, and which credential to login to the infrastructure
      • when - time stamps for start, end and duration of the job run.
      • how - the job status (pass, fail), enviornment and execution node
    • The larger window on the right is the Standard Out Pane. This provides the same console output the user would be used to on the command-line for troubleshooting purposes. Some important takeways to showcase are:
      • aggregate info is at the top including the amount of Plays, tasks, hosts and time duration.
      • this pane can be expanded to take up entire browser window
      • Ansible Playbook can be downloaded for troubleshooting purposes
      • click on task output to show them task-by-task JSON output that can be used for troubleshooting or just getting additional information

  7. ssh to rtr1 and verify the VTY ACL has been changed.

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