In a recent webinar we explored how to get started with Network Automation using NetBox and Ansible, and one of the tasks we automated was backing up network device configuration files. We then took that one step further and compared the running configuration file ie. the actual state of the device with the intended state as defined in NetBox, and then reported on any differences between the two states. This is a really powerful use case for network automation and this blog post takes a deepe...
