QuestionQ468

Infrastructure and Automation

A network operations team uses the cloud to automate selected managed customer and branch locations. The team requires all tooling to be ephemeral by design and the complete automation environment to be recreated without manual commands. Automation code and configuration state must reside in Git for change control and versioning. The engineering high-level plan is to use VMs in a cloud-provider environment, configure open-source tooling on those VMs to poll, test, and configure remote devices, and deploy the tooling itself. Which two configuration automation tools satisfy these requirements?

Choose two
  • A Ansible
  • B NSO
  • C AppDynamics
  • D PyATS
  • E Terraform
Explanation

Terraform uses declarative infrastructure-as-code configuration to provision and manage cloud resources, including virtual machines, and those configuration files can be versioned in Git. Ansible is open-source automation for cloud provisioning, configuration management, software deployment, and remote device management. Using Terraform to recreate the VM-based environment and Ansible to install and configure the automation tooling and managed devices supports an ephemeral, repeatable, version-controlled implementation.

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