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This is part of a series of posts focused on Network Automation Principles.

This year we heard from a lot of folks that have started down their network automation journey. They are seeing initial success, but are finding it difficult to

When working with Ansible playbooks and jinja2, you might notice different jinja2 syntax to access data. Some use square brackets (backup_commands['ios']) while others use dot notation (backup_commands.ios) when

The intention of this blog post is to provide an overview of Ansible Collections, including the problem they are solving, how they work, and how to use them.

Over the last several months Jacob McGill and I made a big push to get through the dozens of open issues and PRs on ntc-templates and to incorporate

Network Emulation consists of (re)creating a network in a virtual environment using virtual devices. Network engineers have been using Network Emulation for training and demos for some time

While teaching a Ansible Network Automation course, one day a student asked if there was a way to visualize Ansible playbooks. My usual response is to ensure they

At my last job many fellow enigneers would made the claim that “I like the idea, and I like the info you can provide, but I am not

In early October, I had the chance and the opportunity to be part of the team that represented Network to Code at Networking Field Day 21. Participating in

This is part of series of posts to understand Network Automation Principles.

Here at Network to Code we work with network devices’ APIs every day. APIs are critical to enable our customers working with Network Automation. APIs are also usually

This is part of a series of posts to understand Network Automation Principles.