Release Notes: Ansible for Networking Engineers

Published high-resolution version of older videos

Use multipass on MacOS to create a Ubuntu VM without Vagrant or VirtualBox

Published updated Creating Reusable Code videos and slide deck. Added New Features and Errata documents to Jinja2, Inventory and Variables, Play and Task Execution, Networking Modules Overview and Extending Ansible sections.

Published updated Getting Operational Data videos and an introduction to Ansible collections in Ansible 2.10

Published new intro videos that include the case studies and debugging videos we added to the Ansible webinar

Published new "Inventory Deep Dive" and updated/restructured "Variables Deep Dive" videos

Added link to "Writing custom inventory plugin" blog post

Added link to "Network Automation Text Parsing Landscape"

Published second half of edited "Managing Configurations" videos.

Published edited "changing device configurations" videos.

Updated the Jinja2 address handling video and slide deck with new ipaddr filters available in Ansible releases 2.5 through 2.8 (including the underdocumented ones :)

Published the first set of edited videos from Ansible Networking Modules update session.

Published final raw videos from Ansible 2.7 Update live webinar sessions.

New slide deck for Declarative Configuration Modules part of Ansible Networking Modules - Managing Configurations section.

Added configure replace example into Managing Configurations slide deck.

Simple Command-Based Playbooks and the first part of Managing Configurations sections have been updated to use Ansible 2.7 features.

The Simple Command-Based Playbooks section has new sample use case: collecting printouts from network devices.

Published updated Ansible Loops video describing the new (post-2.5) syntax and adding a section on drawbacks of using loops in Ansible playbooks.

Also adding links to relevant parts of Ansible documentation to deep dive videos.

The Connecting and Authenticating and Executing Commands parts of the Ansible Networking Modules section have been updated to use the latest (Ansible 2.7) features, including network_cli and httpapi. We also added a new section describing the fundamentals of device-specific and generic networking modules.

The Command-Based Playbooks slide deck has already been updated, the videos will be released after the next update session in February 2019.