Cisco IOS Collection

The Ansible Cisco IOS collection includes a variety of Ansible content to help automate the management of Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE network appliances.

This collection has been tested against Cisco IOS XE Version 17.3 on CML.

Support

As a Red Hat Ansible Certified Content, this collection is entitled to support through Ansible Automation Platform (AAP).

If a support case cannot be opened with Red Hat and the collection has been obtained either from Galaxy or GitHub, there is community support available at no charge.

You can join us on #network:ansible.com room or the Ansible Forum Network Working Group.

For more information you can check the communication section below.

Communication

• Join the Ansible forum:
• Get Help: get help or help others.
• Posts tagged with 'network': subscribe to participate in collection-related conversations.
• Ansible Network Automation Working Group: by joining the team you will automatically get subscribed to the posts tagged with network.
• Social Spaces: gather and interact with fellow enthusiasts.

• News & Announcements: track project-wide announcements including social events.

• The Ansible Bullhorn newsletter: used to announce releases and important changes.

For more information about communication, see the Ansible communication guide.

Ansible version compatibility

This collection has been tested against following Ansible versions: >=2.16.0.

For collections that support Ansible 2.9, please ensure you update your network_os to use the fully qualified collection name (for example, cisco.ios.ios). Plugins and modules within a collection may be tested with only specific Ansible versions. A collection may contain metadata that identifies these versions. PEP440 is the schema used to describe the versions of Ansible.

Supported connections

The Cisco IOS collection supports network_cli connections. A detailed platform guide can be found here.

Included content

Cliconf plugins

Modules

Installing this collection

You can install the Cisco IOS collection with the Ansible Galaxy CLI:

ansible-galaxy collection install cisco.ios

You can also include it in a requirements.yml file and install it with ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml, using the format:

---
collections:
  - name: cisco.ios

Using this collection

This collection includes network resource modules.

Using modules from the Cisco IOS collection in your playbooks

You can call modules by their Fully Qualified Collection Namespace (FQCN), such as cisco.ios.ios_l2_interfaces. The following example task replaces configuration changes in the existing configuration on a Cisco IOS network device, using the FQCN:

---
- name: Replace device configuration of specified L2 interfaces with provided configuration.
  cisco.ios.ios_l2_interfaces:
    config:
      - name: GigabitEthernet0/2
        trunk:
          - allowed_vlans: 20-25,40
            native_vlan: 20
            pruning_vlans: 10
            encapsulation: isl
    state: replaced

NOTE: For Ansible 2.9, you may not see deprecation warnings when you run your playbooks with this collection. Use this documentation to track when a module is deprecated.

See Also:

• Cisco IOS Platform Options
• Ansible Using collections for more details.

Contributing to this collection

We welcome community contributions to this collection. If you find problems, please open an issue or create a PR against the Cisco IOS collection repository. See Contributing to Ansible-maintained collections for complete details.

You can also join us on:

• IRC - the #ansible-network libera.chat channel
• Slack - https://ansiblenetwork.slack.com

See the Ansible Community Guide for details on contributing to Ansible.

Code of Conduct

This collection follows the Ansible project's Code of Conduct. Please read and familiarize yourself with this document.

Release notes

Release notes are available here.

More information

• Ansible network resources
• Ansible Collection Overview
• Ansible User guide
• Ansible Developer Guide
• Ansible Community Code of Conduct

Licensing

GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.

See LICENSE to see the full text.