Managing Policy for Config Drift with Ansible

Using Ansible we will explore popular options to control CLI config drift versus automation. First, we will establish three different examples of source of truth for our Cisco Catalyst switches using config backups, YAML host_vars, and Netbox configs. Second we will compare our intended (desired) state with the current state of the switches and review the differences (DIFFs). Lastly we will enforce configuration state in an Ansible workflow based on policy. Demo included...