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Ansible is a popular open source automation platform. This cheat sheet gets you started using Ansible to automate tasks on Cisco Meraki, an enterprise-cloud managed networking solution for managing access points, security appliances, L2 and L3 switches, and more. As an example, the cheat sheet uses Ansible to automate a response to an event triggered on the network.
Automated NetOps is connected to Ansible through a GitHub integration. Key tasks in the cheat sheet are:
- Reserve a Cisco DevNet sandbox (optional).
- Configure access through the Cisco Meraki dashboard, to allow provisioning from Ansible.
- Configure a GitHub repository with your wireless settings.
- Configure the Ansible project and template.
- Enable a GitHub trigger to invoke Ansible.
- Test the system by creating an automatic trigger.
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Complete the Payload URL and Secret fields with the information generated by Ansible after you created your job template (Figure 26). The Content Type should be application/json. For the sake of simplicity I have disabled SSL verification, but SSL verification is strongly recommended for production environments due to security concerns.
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