Integrating IT Service Management into Ansible Network Workflows

This GitHub repository contains Ansible automation that can be used as a reference while learning from Pluralsight's Integrating IT Service Management into Ansible Network Workflows course.

Setup

To set up this repository and follow along with the courseware, perform the following steps:

1. Use git clone to clone this repository to your local development machine.

$ git clone https://github.com/ChristopherJHart/pluralsight-ansible-itsm.git

2. Move into the newly-created directory.

$ cd pluralsight-ansible-itsm/

3. Create and activate a new Python virtual environment to house this project's dependencies.

$ python -m venv .venv; source .venv/bin/activate

4. Install this project's Python package dependencies using pip:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Install this project's Ansible collection dependencies using ansible-galaxy:

$ ansible-galaxy collection install -r collections/requirements.yaml

6. (Optional) If you are interested in using this project as a base to create your own Ansible automation, install this project's development-related Python package dependencies using pip:

$ pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

7. (Optional) If you are interested in using Ansible playbooks to deploy a network topology to a Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) instance that can be used to test automation, install this project's development-related Ansible collection dependencies using ansible-galaxy:

$ ansible-galaxy collection install -r collections/requirements-dev.yaml