network-engine

This role provides the foundation for building network roles by providing modules and plugins that are common to all Ansible Network roles. The role is platform-agnostic - all of the artifacts in this role can be used on any Ansible-managed network platform.

To install this role: ansible-galaxy install ansible-network.network-engine

To see the version of this role you currently have installed: ansible-galaxy list | grep network-engine

To ensure you have the latest version available: ansible-galaxy install -f ansible-network.network-engine

To use this role, follow the User Guide.

To find other roles maintained by the Ansible Network team, see our Galaxy Profile.

Any open bugs and/or feature requests are tracked in GitHub issues.

Interested in contributing to this role? Check out CONTRIBUTING before submitting a pull request.

Documentation

• User guide:
  • How to use
  • Parser Directives
• Development guide: How to test

For module documentation see the modules section below.

Requirements

• Ansible 2.5.0 (or higher)

Tasks

The following are the available tasks provided by this role for use in playbooks.

None

Variables

The following are the list of variables this role accepts

None

Modules

The following is a list of modules that are provided by this role, which include documentation & examples:

• cli source
• command_parser source
• textfsm_parser source

Plugins

The following is a list of plugins that are provided by this role.

Lookup

• json_template [source]
• network_template [source]
• netcfg_diff [source]
• yang2spec [source]

Filter

• interface_split [source]
• interface_range [source]
• vlan_expand [source]
• vlan_compress [source]

Dependencies

The following is the list of dependencies on other roles this role requires.

None

License

GPLv3

Author Information

Ansible Network Engineering Team