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Ansible validated content is a set of collections that contain content such as Ansible plug-ins, roles, and playbooks to address common automation use cases. You can use validated content collections to automate faster and more efficiently with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
The Network Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) validated content collection focuses on platform-agnostic network automation and supports the BGP management experience by providing production-ready content.
This cheat sheet covers basic commands and tasks for using Network BGP-validated content, including:
- list
- gather
- deploy
- persist
- health_check
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Excerpt
Create brownfield inventory
persist
ansible.builtin.include_role:
name: network.bgp.run
vars:
actions:
- name: persist
Fetches and persists the running BGP configuration.
Example:
This task fetches the running config and saves the facts in terms of host_vars on the provided/default inventory path. This inventory can act as a source of truth (SOT) for other operations.
The playbook would look like following:
- hosts: ios
tasks:
- name: Create run time inventory with host-vars(Facts).
ansible.builtin.include_role:
name: network.bgp.run
vars:
actions:
-name: persist
$ ansible-playbook -i inventory.yaml persist.yml
$ tree inventory
inventory
├── host_vars
│ └── 192.168.122.220
│ ├── bgp_address_family.yaml
│ └── bgp_global.yaml
└── inventory.yaml
$ cat inventory/host_vars/192.168.122.220/bgp_global.yaml
bgp_global:
as_number: '500'
bgp:
log_neighbor_changes: true
neighbors:
- neighbor_address: 12.0.0.1
remote_as: '500'
update_source: Loopback0
- neighbor_address: 23.0.0.1
remote_as: '500'
networks:
- address: 10.0.0.0
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