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January 27, 2025 redhat.com

Learn why Red Hat customer MAPFRE chose Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Why an automation platform is critical for an AI strategy, and how MAPFRE, a global insurance company, uses Ansible Automation Platform for security, policy as code, and AI readiness.

ansible AI customer

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August 1, 2022 redhat.com

Peeling back the layers and understanding automation mesh

A technical deep-dive into automation mesh, the overlay network in Ansible Automation Platform 2 that separates the control plane from execution.

ansible networking

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December 2, 2021 redhat.com

Introducing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.1

Announcing the GA of Ansible Automation Platform 2.1, featuring major new capabilities for flexible automation architectures and enterprise onboarding.

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2019

June 05, 2019

Smith Level Rd, Carrboro – Road Diet

Smith Level Road is one of the primary ways into downtown Carrboro. Well known Carrboro business are located right on Smith Level Road (which changes...

community carrboro biking

February 08, 2019

The Ridiculous Eastgate Crossing Shopping Center

My wife and I took a day off work to have a staycation and just putter around Chapel Hill. The weather was amazing, so we...

community chapel-hill urban-planning

2018

April 11, 2018

Learning and Testing Ansible Playbooks with Virtual Images

One of the common problems I see with network automation in general is that no one wants to learn and test their automation software on...

ansible networking virtual-labs

March 26, 2018 ansible.com

Infoblox Integration in Ansible 2.5

The Ansible 2.5 open source project release includes the following Infoblox Network Identity Operating System (NIOS) enablement:

ansible infoblox networking

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February 08, 2018 ansible.com

Networking Features in Ansible 2.5

The upcoming Ansible 2.5 open source project release has some really exciting improvements. In typical Ansible fashion, development of networking enhancements is done in the...

ansible networking release

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January 09, 2018 ansible.com

Accelerate Network Automation with Aggregate Resources

One of the major networking features in Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.4 was the addition of aggregate resources to the networking modules. The Ansible networking...

ansible networking performance

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2017

December 08, 2017

Ansible Provider for Networking Modules

While I know the provider argument is going to be eventually deprecated for networking modules for Ansible in favor of the new connection: network_cli, I...

ansible networking troubleshooting

October 23, 2017 cumulusnetworks.com

Automating Network Troubleshooting with NetQ + Ansible

For this blog post I want to focus on automating network troubleshooting, the forgotten stepchild of network automation tasks. I think most automation tools focus...

ansible cumulus netq

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October 16, 2017 cumulusnetworks.com

NetDevOps: What Does It Even Mean?

As more and more network engineers dive into network automation, the word idempotence keeps coming up. What is it? Why is it important? Why should...

netdevops networking idempotence

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August 30, 2017 cumulusnetworks.com

Backing Up Configs with the Ansible NCLU Module

With the release of Ansible 2.3 the Cumulus Linux NCLU module is now part of Ansible core. This means when you apt-get install ansible, you...

ansible cumulus nclu

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June 15, 2017 cumulusnetworks.com

5 Host Network Configurations for MLAG

Host network configurations for MultiChassis Link Aggregation (MLAG, also referred to as dual-attach or ‘high availability’) can vary from host OS to host OS, even...

cumulus mlag networking

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May 01, 2017

Ansible Playbook for Cumulus EVPN

I wrote a quick Ansible playbook for Cumulus EVPN. Cumulus EVPN is now GA (Generally Available) but the packages are still in the EA (early...

ansible cumulus evpn

April 01, 2017

BGP Hostname Capability

I really like Daniel Walton’s draft-walton-bgp-hostname-capability-00. Cumulus Networks implemented this as part of Quagga/FRR and it has become the default on Cumulus Linux 3.0 and...

bgp networking cumulus

March 15, 2017

Layer2 Ports Not in a VLAN on Cumulus Linux

Cumulus Linux has a cool ‘feature’ it inherited from Linux. On most network switches a port is either Layer2 or Layer3. When a port is...

cumulus linux networking

2016

December 01, 2016 cumulusnetworks.com

Linux vs SDN

Oftentimes, Cumulus Linux gets confused for an SDN (software-defined networking) solution. In conversations with potential customers, I’ve noticed that some of them find it difficult...

cumulus sdn networking

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February 01, 2016 cumulusnetworks.com