I Rebuilt My Arista Lab Using ONLY Ansible… After One Week of Learning!

In this video I revisit my Arista lab, but this time I’m doing everything the smart way fully automated with Ansible. No manual CLI marathon, no repetitive configs… just clean automation. I walk through how I use my core playbook to deploy the entire MLAG core, then run my NAD playbook to configure the access switches. With a few variable tweaks in the host file, the whole setup is built in around five minutes. The wild part? I’ve only been learning Ansible for a week. Check Github for all the files: https://github.com/null0labs/ansible-... 🛠️ Stuff I Use 🛠️ EVE-NG - multivendor network emulation software. Linux, Ubuntu, Debian OSX, Windows Networking hardware - Multi vendor 👨🏻‍💻 About Me: Hi I'm Matt a Senior Network Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience architecting, securing, and optimizing high-availability networks across enterprise environments. I stream labs and create video content to help others level up their skills. 💻 Social: Website: [null0labs.com](https://null0labs.com) GitHub: [@null0labs](https://github.com/null0labs) Instagram: [@null0labs](  / null0labs  ) Twitter/X: [@null0labs](  / null0labs  ) LinkedIn:[@mlewisonline](  / mlewisonline  ) 🙋🏻‍♂️ Questions or ideas? Drop them in the comments. Subscribe for protocol mastery, live labs, and routing realness.

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