Now, we need to translate the interface roles defined in Nautobot into specific configurations for the switches. To achieve this, we will create an Ansible role that utilizes the inventory described in the previous post to configure the interfaces of each device.

Fetch Running Configuration

First, we retrieve the current running configuration from the switch:

Optimizing show running-config improves overall performance.

Create data structures

Next, we generate data structures with necessary details from Nautobot:

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