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Automating Networks with Ansible the Right Way

Network automation requires robust and maintainable solutions. This course will teach you best practices for Ansible, including advanced playbook structuring, idempotency, error handling, and validation techniques for scalable configurations.

Intermediate
1h 14m

Created by Reindert-Jan Ekker

Last Updated May 06, 2026

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Automating Networks with Ansible the Right Way

Network automation requires robust and maintainable solutions. This course will teach you best practices for Ansible, including advanced playbook structuring, idempotency, error handling, and validation techniques for scalable configurations.

Intermediate
1h 14m

Created by Reindert-Jan Ekker

Last Updated May 06, 2026

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What you'll learn

As your Ansible playbooks grow in complexity, maintaining reliability, scalability, and readability becomes increasingly challenging. In this course, Automating Networks with Ansible the Right Way, you’ll gain the ability to build robust, efficient, and maintainable automation solutions for network environments. First, you’ll explore advanced playbook structuring techniques to organize and scale your automation effectively. Next, you’ll discover how to ensure idempotency and implement reliable error handling to create predictable and resilient workflows. Finally, you’ll learn how to integrate validation techniques to verify and safeguard your network configurations. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Ansible best practices needed to create reliable, scalable, and production-ready network automation solutions.

Automating Networks with Ansible the Right Way
Intermediate
1h 14m
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Reindert-Jan Ekker - Pluralsight course - Automating Networks with Ansible the Right Way
Reindert-Jan Ekker
31 courses 4.6 author rating 4503 ratings

After years of working in software development, Reindert-Jan Ekker switched to teaching programmers in 2010 and never looked back. He authors Pluralsight courses and teaches classes about Python, data science, devops (among others). Even though he squeezes some development jobs in here and there, teaching is his real passion and he is looking forward to share this passion with you.

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