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Programmability and Automation Meetup Group
The Programmability and Automation Meetup Group focuses on programmability, automation, and Infrastructure as Code using both Open Source tools and vendor-specific solutions. All skill levels are welcome. We will cover many topics from various technologies and provide hands-on lab opportunities.
Infrastructure Automation with Ansible
The infrastructure automation learning series is an educational program designed to equip individuals with the skills and knowledge needed to automate and manage complex IT infrastructures efficiently. Participants learn how to streamline and standardize infrastructure deployment, configuration, and management processes. The series delves into best practices for creating scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure, enabling learners to implement automation solutions effectively within various IT environments. By the end of the program, individuals gain a comprehensive understanding of automation tools and strategies that enhance productivity, reduce manual intervention, and optimize infrastructure operations.
Building an Automation Framework
Discover the transformative potential of automation with our comprehensive Automation Framework. By integrating industry-leading tools like NetBox and Ansible, we streamline operations, enhance cross-functional collaboration and drive innovation. This framework empowers organizations to achieve strategic goals, optimize AI integration and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
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Data-driven Automation with Netbox
In this hands-on lab, learners will explore how to build and configure a data-driven automation workflow using Ansible Automation Platform and NetBox. The lab guides users through practical exercises that demonstrate how real-time source of truth changes can trigger automated configuration. Participants will configure NetBox event rules and webhooks to emit actionable events, set up Event-Driven Ansible event streams to receive and process those events, and create rulebook activations that respond intelligently. By the end of the lab, learners will have a working solution that tightly integrates their source of truth with automation workflows—enabling scalable, responsive infrastructure management.
Infrastructure Automation with Ansible
In today's complex and fast-paced IT landscape, the need for automation has never been greater. Organizations of all sizes are looking for solutions that can streamline their operations, enhance efficiency, and reduce errors. Ansible stands
out as a powerful automation tool, hitting the mark on several key points that make it an ideal choice for teams of all backgrounds and expertise levels.
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Building a Common Data Platform for Data Center Fabrics
Many organizations make decisions to run multi-vendor networks and relying on vendor-centric tooling can lead to inefficiencies in operating or interoperating those networks. Building a common control plane using NetBox provides a reliable and standardized model of network infrastructure, which drives all of modern automation activities. The ability to abstract the configuration data required to build a data center fabric can lead to great gains in operating multi-vendor solutions as well as setting up easier transitions from one vendor to the other.
Infrastructure Automation with Ansible
The infrastructure automation learning series is an educational program designed to equip individuals with the skills and knowledge needed to automate and manage complex IT infrastructures efficiently. Participants learn how to streamline and standardize infrastructure deployment, configuration, and management processes. The series delves into best practices for creating scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure, enabling learners to implement automation solutions effectively within various IT environments. By the end of the program, individuals gain a comprehensive understanding of automation tools and strategies that enhance productivity, reduce manual intervention, and optimize infrastructure operations.
Ansible Engine Parsing and Transforming Data Introduction
This video introduces the Ansible Utils Collection's CLI Parse module, and the problem it solves: converting unstructured CLI output into structured data your automation can actually use. You'll learn how CLI Parse can either run a command and parse its output in one step, or parse existing text, and you'll get an overview of its CLI parser plugins, including TextFSM, NTC Templates, and PyATS, along with what makes each one different and when you might reach for one over another.
Build Trusted Automation with AI: Ansible Dev Tools MCP
AI can draft a playbook in seconds, but you still have to trust it before it touches production. This hands-on learning path shows how to connect an AI agent to the Ansible Dev Tools MCP server and use it to scaffold, lint, and test automation against real quality gates, then publish only validated content as a trusted AAP job template.
Ansible Engine Variables Introduction
This video covers Ansible variables — what they are, where you can define them, and how precedence decides which value wins when the same variable is set in multiple places. You'll see variables defined in inventory files, host_vars/group_vars folders, playbooks, vars_files, and extra_vars on the command line, each with its own priority. It also covers creating variables dynamically through the facts module and the register attribute, which captures a task's output for later use. Mastering variables is what makes roles and playbooks reusable across different hosts and environments, and it sets up the hands-on lab where you'll put them to work.
CICD for Automation Engineers
This lab is a component of the Infrastructure Automation Automated Testing learning path in the Infrastructure Automation with Ansible Learning Series. The goal of this learning path is to provide hands-on and practical exposure to the concepts of implementing Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery.
The lab will utilize Gitea as the Source Code Manager (SCM) which includes Gitea Actions for executing CICD Workflows. Gitea Actions map almost identically to GitHub actions so the Gitea specific knowledge gained maps directly to GitHub implementations. The general concepts learned through this lab are also valuable and applicable across other implementations.
Ansible Ad hoc Commands Introduction
Run your first real Ansible automation with ad hoc commands — single-task, one-off commands executed straight from the CLI, no playbook required. This lab covers what they are and where they shine: quick triage during an outage, checking error counters, rebooting or restarting services across a group of devices, or pushing a fast patch. It's the most direct way to get hands-on with Ansible before building out full playbooks.
Ansible Development Tools MCP Server
The learner is guided through the installation, configuration, and operations of the Ansible Dev Tools MCP Server. The lab guide walks through using the Ansible Dev Tools MCP server to build an ansible role, validate it against ansible-lint rules and best practices, and ultimately publish it as trusted content.
Building an Automation Framework
Discover the transformative potential of automation with our comprehensive Automation Framework. By integrating industry-leading tools like NetBox and Ansible, we streamline operations, enhance cross-functional collaboration and drive innovation. This framework empowers organizations to achieve strategic goals, optimize AI integration and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
Pure Ansible Automation Lab Demo
This playlist goes along with the on-demand Everpure Ansible Automation Lab. Follow the instructions in the first video to get access to one of the on-demand labs.
Detecting and Responding to Device Health Score Degradation
Learners will build a network assurance workflow that connects live device health data from Cisco Catalyst Center with the NetBox source of truth. The playbook queries device health scores, evaluates them against a configurable threshold, identifies degraded devices, and writes the resulting health status back into NetBox for operational visibility.
Automating Network Assurance with NetBox Labs and Cisco Catalyst Center
Discover how to revolutionize network assurance through automation with NetBox Labs and Cisco Catalyst Center. This lab empowers participants to transform manual processes into scalable practices, leveraging dynamic inventory and Ansible workflows for enhanced efficiency and consistency. Embrace a source-of-truth-driven approach to streamline operations and align automation with network intent.
Automating Network Inventory and Assurance with NetBox and Catalyst Center
This Learning Path shows you how to build a source-of-truth-driven automation solution with Cisco Catalyst Center, NetBox, and Ansible. You'll sync live inventory into NetBox using Orb Agent and Diode, drive Ansible playbooks off a NetBox dynamic inventory, and close the loop by writing live device health scores back into NetBox.
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Data-driven Automation with Netbox
In this hands-on lab, learners will explore how to build and configure a data-driven automation workflow using Ansible Automation Platform and NetBox. The lab guides users through practical exercises that demonstrate how real-time source of truth changes can trigger automated configuration. Participants will configure NetBox event rules and webhooks to emit actionable events, set up Event-Driven Ansible event streams to receive and process those events, and create rulebook activations that respond intelligently. By the end of the lab, learners will have a working solution that tightly integrates their source of truth with automation workflows—enabling scalable, responsive infrastructure management.
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Red Hat OpenShift Disconnected Install Lab
In this hands-on lab, you'll learn how to set up a disconnected installation of OpenShift, allowing you to deploy and manage OpenShift clusters in environments without direct internet access. You'll begin by downloading the necessary OpenShift components on a connected host, transferring them to a disconnected host, and proceeding with installing OpenShift on bare metal servers using the agent-based installer. By the end of this lab, you'll have a fully functional, disconnected OpenShift cluster. This lab is ideal for users working in secure or isolated environments where external connectivity is restricted or non-existent.
Infrastructure Automation with Ansible
In today's complex and fast-paced IT landscape, the need for automation has never been greater. Organizations of all sizes are looking for solutions that can streamline their operations, enhance efficiency, and reduce errors. Ansible stands
out as a powerful automation tool, hitting the mark on several key points that make it an ideal choice for teams of all backgrounds and expertise levels.
An Autopsy of AI Hype: What Harvard Business Review Got Wrong
A critique of past AI predictions and the current reality of enterprise AI.
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NetApp Ansible Automation Lab
Learn to automate NetApp ONTAP using Ansible. This lab provides an overview of GIT and Ansible to understand how they work together to simplify the automation of NetApp storage solutions.
Dell PowerStore Ansible Lab: Module 4 - Invoke Snapshot
Welcome to the Dell PowerStore Ansible Lab video series. We'll walk through how to automate your PowerStore arrays leveraging Ansible inside our on-demand lab.
Dell PowerStore Ansible Lab: Module 2 - Provision Storage
Welcome to the Dell PowerStore Ansible Lab video series. We'll walk through how to automate your PowerStore arrays leveraging Ansible inside our on-demand lab.