Ansible was originally made for managing nodes with full operating systems such as Linux and Windows before it was extended to support network equipment. You may have already noticed the subtle differences in playbooks that we have used so far for network devices, such as the lines of gather_facts: false and connection: local; we will take a closer look at the differences in the following sections.
Ansible networking modules
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