One of the biggest challenges of network automation is getting usable information from network devices… or as asked by a student in my Building Network Automation Solutions online course in the course Slack team:
How do I get specific information from a specific command from a device without an Ansible Network Module? Is Python the only suggested approach?
I described how hard it is to get structured information from network devices in great details in this section of the Ansible for Networking Engineers webinar and online course.