Integrating Ansible with Nautobot involves two main aspects:

• Reading information from Nautobot using Ansible.
• Running Ansible playbooks to update device configurations.

Let’s focus on the first point: to make Nautobot’s information available in Ansible, we need to use a dynamic inventory .  Network to Code  provides a specific Ansible collection for Nautobot  that includes an inventory plugin. You can install this collection with:

ansible-galaxy collection install networktocode.nautobot

Before configuring the inventory, ensure the following information is completed in Nautobot for your device:

• IP address for device access
• Username and password for device access
• Connection method used by Ansible to access the device
• Device interfaces with associated profiles

Configure primary IP address

To configure the management IP address, follow these steps:

Create a network prefix: Navigate to IPAM -> Prefixes -> Add:

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