{"id":655,"date":"2019-11-21T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nl1g1e2381-staging.onrocket.site\/closing-the-loop-on-automation-forward-networks-ansible\/"},"modified":"2023-11-28T20:24:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T20:24:05","slug":"closing-the-loop-on-automation-forward-networks-ansible-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/21\/closing-the-loop-on-automation-forward-networks-ansible-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing the Loop on Automation: Forward Networks + Ansible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In my previous ONUG blog post Query Your Network like a Database, I talked about how companies are embracing Network Automation in order to become more agile. I described how Network Automation can be very powerful but frighteningly dangerous without a proper safety guard. I explained what the Forward Networks Network Query Engine is and how it can help in building a rock solid network verification solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But now I\u2019ll explain how customers can build a complete network automation and verification solution with Ansible and Forward Networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ansible (by Red Hat) is a simple, powerful and agentless tool used by many customers to automate the deployment and configurations of applications, servers and network devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forward Networks\u2019 flagship platform, Forward Enterprise, documents, searches, verifies, and predicts the behavior of your network by creating an always-accurate software copy of your entire network infrastructure for both on-prem and cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With available REST APIs, it easily integrates into existing network management workflow and tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onug.net\/blog\/closing-the-loop-on-automation-forward-networks-ansible\/\">Continue reading...<br><\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Read more about Forward<\/p><cite><a href=\"\/blog\">VISIT THE FORWARD BLOG<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my previous ONUG blog post Query Your Network like a Database, I talked about how companies are embracing Network Automation in order to become more agile. I described how Network Automation can be very powerful but frighteningly dangerous without a proper safety guard. I explained what the Forward Networks Network Query Engine is and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[28],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authors":[{"term_id":28,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"fabriziomaccioni","display_name":"Fabrizio Maccioni","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Fabrizio-Maccioni.webp","url2x":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Fabrizio-Maccioni.webp"},"author_category":"1","user_url":"","last_name":"Maccioni","first_name":"Fabrizio","job_title":"","description":"Sr. Director, Product "}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1655,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/1655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}