Question

You are writing an Ansible playbook to configure OSPF on a fleet of Cisco IOS-XE routers. Your team has standardized on structured, model-driven data and wants the playbook to push configuration via NETCONF/YANG rather than screen-scraping CLI. Which combination of connection plugin and module type should you use in your play so the tasks communicate with the devices correctly?

Accepted Answer

Set ansible_connection to netconf and use the netconf_config (or a cisco.ios NETCONF-based) module to push the YANG-modeled OSPF configuration

Answer

Set ansible_connection to network_cli and use the ios_config module with a list of CLI commands for OSPF

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Set ansible_connection to httpapi and use the uri module to POST OSPF CLI text to the device

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Set ansible_connection to local and use the raw module to SSH each OSPF command individually