ansible-aci

The ansible-aci project provides an Ansible collection for managing and automating your Cisco ACI environment. It consists of a set of modules and roles for performing tasks related to ACI.

This collection has been tested and supports ACI 3.2+. Modules supporting new features introduced in ACI API in specific ACI versions might not be supported in earlier ACI releases.

Note: This collection is not compatible with versions of Ansible before v2.8.

Requirements

Ansible v2.14 or newer

Install

Ansible must be installed

sudo pip install ansible

Install the collection

ansible-galaxy collection install cisco.aci

Use

Once the collection is installed, you can use it in a playbook by specifying the full namespace path to the module, plugin and/or role.

- hosts: aci
  gather_facts: no

  tasks:
  - name: Add a new EPG
    cisco.aci.aci_epg:
      hostname: apic
      username: admin
      password: SomeSecretPassword
      tenant: production
      ap: intranet
      epg: web_epg
      description: Web Intranet EPG
      bd: prod_bd
    delegate_to: localhost

Optimizing Playbooks

To find out more about optimizing playbook execution, please refer to the Optimizing Playbooks documentation.

Update

Getting the latest/nightly collection build

First Approach

Clone the ansible-aci repository.

git clone https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/ansible-aci.git

Go to the ansible-aci directory

cd ansible-aci

Pull the latest master on your aci

git pull origin master

Build and Install a collection from source

ansible-galaxy collection build --force
ansible-galaxy collection install cisco-aci-* --force

Second Approach

Go to ansible-aci Actions

Select the latest CI build

Under Artifacts download collection and unzip it using Terminal or Console.

Note: The collection file is a zip file containing a tar.gz file. We recommend using CLI because some GUI-based unarchiver might unarchive both nested archives in one go.

Install the unarchived tar.gz file

ansible-galaxy collection install cisco-aci-1.0.0.tar.gz —-force

See Also

• Ansible Using collections for more details.

Contributing to this collection

Ongoing development efforts and contributions to this collection are tracked as issues in this repository.

We welcome community contributions to this collection. If you find problems, need an enhancement or need a new module, please open an issue or create a PR against the Cisco ACI collection repository.