aap-meraki-demo-setup

This repository contains the playbooks to configure Ansible Automation Controller or Ansible AWX as demonstrated during the "Using Ansible to automate edge site infrastructure at scale" talk delivered in Red Hat's booth during Cisco Live US 2023.

The companion repo that contains the demo playbooks and configuration is available at https://github.com/wwt/ansible-meraki-demo.

Demo Setup

⚠️ The following are the basic settings that need to be changed. Your environment requirements may vary.

1. Update controller_configs/controller_auth.yml with appropriate hostname of your AAP or AWX instance.
2. Update controller_configs/controller_projects.yml with the appropriate scm_url for your environment.
3. Copy ENVEXAMPLE to .env and update settings as necessary.
4. Run ansible-playbook create_token.yml to authenticate with your AAP or AWX instance and add an OAuth token to .env.
5. Run source .env command to load Environment Variables
6. Run ansible-playbook configure_controller.yml to push configuration to your AAP or AWX instance.

Template Surveys

template_surveys/claim_meraki.json - Survey to prompt user for information required to execute claim_devices.yml playbook.

Additional Playbooks

playbooks/delete_token.yml - Playbook to delete OAuth token from AAP or AWX.

Contributors

Nick Thompson - https://github.com/nsthompson