This role provides the foundation for building network roles by providing modules and plugins that are common to all Ansible Network roles. The role is platform-agnostic - all of the artifacts in this role can be used on any Ansible-managed network platform.

To install this role: ansible-galaxy install ansible-network.network-engine

To see the version of this role you currently have installed: ansible-galaxy list | grep network-engine

To ensure you have the latest version available: ansible-galaxy install -f ansible-network.network-engine

To use this role, follow the User Guide.

To find other roles maintained by the Ansible Network team, see our Galaxy Profile.

Any open bugs and/or feature requests are tracked in GitHub issues.

Interested in contributing to this role? Check out CONTRIBUTING before submitting a pull request.

• User guide:
  • How to use
  • Parser Directives
• Development guide: How to test

For module documentation see the modules section below.

• Ansible 2.5.0 (or higher)

The following are the available tasks provided by this role for use in playbooks.

None

The following are the list of variables this role accepts

None

The following is a list of modules that are provided by this role, which include documentation & examples:

• cli source
• command_parser source
• textfsm_parser source

The following is a list of plugins that are provided by this role.

• json_template [source]
• network_template [source]
• netcfg_diff [source]
• yang2spec [source]

• interface_split [source]
• interface_range [source]
• vlan_expand [source]
• vlan_compress [source]

The following is the list of dependencies on other roles this role requires.

None

GPLv3

Ansible Network Engineering Team