Summit Connect: Houston

At Summit Connect 2023 in Houston, we hosted a Network Automation session and an Event-Driven Ansible hands-on lab. This doc aggregates some useful links from our discussions for future reference.

General

Link	Description
Ansible on YouTube	YouTube Channel ran by the Ansible BU with countless tutorials
Zach's Blog	My blog focused primarily on challenges that I help customers solve with Ansible
Containerized Install	Install Ansible Automation Platform using containers via Podman

Network Automation

Link	Description
ansible-network-mgmt	Repository containing source code for the Summit Connect demos
ansible-network-configs	Repository containing the backups using Ansible's common data model, as well as golden configs for the configuration-as-code use case
Git Backup and Restore	Documentation for the first demo of the git configuration backup and restore process
Network Config-as-Code	Documentation for the second demo of automated pipelines to deploy configuration on completion of a pull request
Ansible.Netcommon	Documentation for the Ansible validated content collection for common networking operations (write vendor-agnostic playbooks)
Example Dynamic Documentation	Touched on this use case in the slides, this is an example report generated by Ansible

Event-Driven Ansible

Link	Description
EDA Lab	Public landing page for the Event-Driven Ansible labs we walked through together (PDF of slides can be found here)
Getting Started Guide	Red Hat's getting started guide with links to additional references
Ansible Rulebook Documentation	Official documentation for developing and using Ansible rulebooks
Building Custom Decision Environments	Guide for building custom decision environments (requires customer login)
ansible.eda Collection	Source code for the ansible.eda collection available in the default execution environment
cloin.eda Collection	Source code for the cloin.eda collection - useful reference for developing your own custom source plugins (example for ServiceNow available)