Cisco's support in Ansible is categorized by the operating systems IOS, IOS-XR, and NX-OS. We have already seen a number of NX-OS examples, so in this section let's try to manage IOS-based devices.
Our host file will consist of two hosts, R1 and R2:
[ios_devices]R1 ansible_host=192.168.24.250R2 ansible_host=192.168.24.251[ios_devices:vars]username=ciscopassword=cisco
Our playbook, cisco_5.yml, will use the ios_command module to execute arbitrary show commands:
--- - name: IOS Show Commands hosts: "ios_devices" gather_facts: false connection: local vars: cli: host: "{{ ansible_host }}" username: "{{ username }}" password: "{{ password }}" transport: cli tasks: - name: ios show commands ios_command: commands: - show ...
