Ansible Network: Network Engine Release ---------------------------------------- The Ansible Network team is pleased to announce that the initial release of the Network Engine Ansible role is now available in Ansible Galaxy! What is an Ansible Role? ---------------------------------- An Ansible Role is a collection of related tasks, methods, plugins, and modules in a standard format. You can use Roles in tasks or playbooks. What does the Network Engine Role do? ---------------------------------- The Network Engine Role provides the fundamental building blocks for a data-model-driven approach to automated network management. Network Engine: - extracts data about your network devices - returns the data as Ansible facts in a JSON data structure, ready to be added to your inventory host facts and/or consumed by Ansible tasks and templates - works on any network platform With the Network Engine role, and other Roles built around it, you can normalize your Ansible facts across your entire network. How do I get it? ---------------------------------- Via Ansible Galaxy using the following Linux command: `ansible-galaxy install ansible-network.network-engine` How do I use it? ---------------------------------- See the [User Guide](https://github.com/ansible-network/network-engine/blob/devel/docs/user_guide/README.md) for details and examples.