Network Automation with CI/CD and Ansible

Manual network configurations are prone to errors and slow down operations. Transitioning to infrastructure as code allows you to automate and validate network changes before they hit production. This text-based course guides you through establishing a reliable continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline for network infrastructure, ensuring safe and predictable deployments. What you will learn: - Understand foundational network automation concepts, Git workflows, and CI/CD pipelines - Write and structure clean Ansible playbooks for network device configuration - Implement automated linting and syntax validation for YAML and Ansible configurations - Configure a continuous integration pipeline to test network changes automatically - Practice safe deployment strategies to push configurations to network devices - Apply modern GitOps principles to maintain a single source of truth for your network state. You will start with core terminology, Git basics, and Ansible fundamentals before moving on to building a step-by-step pipeline. Through written explanations and realistic configuration examples, you will learn how to automate validation and safely deploy changes. This course is designed for network engineers, systems administrators, and beginners curious about network automation, requiring no prior CI/CD experience. Start reading today to transform how you manage and scale your network infrastructure.