In this lesson we’re going to be taking a look at how to really use Ansible. This lesson is going to be really lab heavy, so for the best experience I highly recommend you sign up and check out the …
In this lesson we’re going to be talking about Ansible playbooks. Now, I’ve mentioned playbooks a handful of times before this particular lesson, and here we’re going to be talking about what playbooks actually look like, how they’re structured and …
In this lesson we’re going to be going over Ansible inventory files. Ansible has a method of defining Ansible managed devices and grouping those devices, and using this definition to be able to run your playbooks and modules on a …
In this lesson we’ll be taking a look at ansible’s architecture and capabilities, and doing a brief overview of its operation. Both in a standard deployment, as well as how it operates when interfacing with Juniper devices. The first thing …
In this lesson we’re going to be going over YAML. Now YAML is a fun acronym, it is what’s known as a recursive acronym. because it uses its own name within the acronym definition. YAML stands for YAML ain’t markup …
In this lesson we’re going to be talking about JSON, which is JavaScript Object Notation. we had touched on this very briefly in our last lesson when we did an overview of what data serialization techniques are and a few …
Data serialization refers to the standard structuring of data in a machine-readable format that has specific data types and is formatted in a certain way so that machines can easily read and understand the data. There are many different available …
In this lesson we’re going to be talking about XPath XML documents are highly structured documents, they follow a very specific format. We also need a way to be able to navigate these documents, since they are so standardized in …
In this lesson we’re going to be talking about the supported XML API languages. XSLT First up, XSLT. XSLT stands for eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations. This language is used exclusively for XML to XML transformations. It is a standards-based language, …
In this lesson we’ll be talking about the XML API in more depth and really going over how the Juniper infrastructure uses the XML API on the back end. We’ll see how we can get more visibility into what exactly …