Red Hat Ansible for Network Automation

Create a playbook named multi-vendor-backup3.yml that defaults to backing up configurations for all of the devices belonging to the network group. Remember that you can also use the --limit=SUBSET (-l SUBSET) option to limit the target hosts to a particular group or host, as long as that group or host is a subset of the group or hosts specified in the hosts field of the playbook.

[student@workstation proj]$ cat multi-vendor-backup3.yml
---
- name: back up network device configurations
  hosts: network

  tasks:

  - name: backup config of vyos device
    vyos_config:
      backup: yes
    when: ansible_network_os == 'vyos'

  - name: backup config of ios device
    ios_config:
      backup: yes
    when: ansible_network_os == 'ios'

Perform the play in your playbook.

[student@workstation proj]$ ansible-playbook multi-vendor-backup3.yml

Verify that device configurations were successfully backed up.

[student@workstation proj]$ ls -l backup/
total 20
-rw-rw-r--. 1 student student 1768 Aug  3 14:15 cs01_config.2020-08-03@14:15:52
-rw-rw-r--. 1 student student 2890 Aug  3 14:15 leaf01_config.2020-08-03@14:15:51
-rw-rw-r--. 1 student student 2903 Aug  3 14:15 leaf02_config.2020-08-03@14:15:51
-rw-rw-r--. 1 student student 2883 Aug  3 14:15 spine01_config.2020-08-03@14:15:51
-rw-rw-r--. 1 student student 2892 Aug  3 14:15 spine02_config.2020-08-03@14:15:51
[student@workstation proj]$ head -n 6 backup/*
==> backup/cs01_config.2020-08-03@14:15:52 <==
Building configuration...

Current configuration : 1708 bytes
!
! Last configuration change at 14:51:02 UTC Mon Aug 3 2020
!

==> backup/leaf01_config.2020-08-03@14:15:51 <==
set interfaces ethernet eth0 address '172.25.250.151/24'
set interfaces ethernet eth0 duplex 'auto'
set interfaces ethernet eth0 hw-id '2c:c2:60:3c:26:65'
set interfaces ethernet eth0 smp_affinity 'auto'
set interfaces ethernet eth0 speed 'auto'
set interfaces ethernet eth1 address '10.10.10.1/30'

==> backup/leaf02_config.2020-08-03@14:15:51 <==
set interfaces ethernet eth0 address '172.25.250.161/24'
set interfaces ethernet eth0 duplex 'auto'
set interfaces ethernet eth0 hw-id '2c:c2:60:6b:20:19'
set interfaces ethernet eth0 smp_affinity 'auto'
set interfaces ethernet eth0 speed 'auto'
set interfaces ethernet eth1 duplex 'auto'
...output omitted...