We have briefly talked about the addition of network connection changes in Ansible playbooks, starting with version 2.5. Along with the changes, Ansible also released a network best practices document, https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/network/user_guide/network_best_practices_2.5.html. Let's build an example based on the best practices guide. For our topology, we will reuse the topology in Chapter 2, Low-Level Network Device Interactions, with two IOSv devices. Since there are multiple files involved in this example, the files are grouped into a subdirectory named ansible_2-5_example.
Our inventory file is reduced to the group and the name of the hosts:
$ cat hosts[ios-devices]iosv-1iosv-2
We have created ...
