Network Visualization using Ansible Tower

Ben Thomasson, Principal Software Engineer, Networking, Ansible by Red Hat bthomass@redhat.com

September 7, 2017

Ansible Tasks

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NetworkTopologyDiagram

YAML Data Structure

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Fact Discovery

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Deploy with a Single Click

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Test By Copy-and-Paste To Virtual

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Zoom in for More Detail

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Live Demo

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• Discover the topology diagram of a network using Ansible playbooks

• Make modifications to the topology diagram in Tower (Configure OSPF and an application)

• Clone the topology to a virtual environment• Test the changes on the virtual test bed using

application traffic• Then push changes to production and start the

application again

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