Ansible Engine Parsing and Transforming Data

Real-world automation rarely receives data in exactly the shape it needs. Command-line tools return raw, unstructured text, and even structured data pulled from a parser or another source doesn't always match what your playbook requires.

This module covers both problems. First, you'll learn how to convert raw CLI output into structured data that can be consumed programmatically. Then, you'll use Jinja2 templating to reshape that structured data into the format your automation actually needs.

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• Parse unstructured CLI output into structured data using the ansible.utils.cli_parse module, working with both the NTC Templates and PyATS parsing engines
• Transform structured data into a new format using Jinja2 templating, generating YAML output suitable for use as Ansible host variables

• Ubuntu Linux Jumpbox
  • Ansible Engine
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Python3
• 3 x Cisco CSRs
• 1 x Cisco Nexus 9000v