Jetpack
Jetpack is an Ansible collection containing useful Ansible add-ons for network engineers and operators.
Compatibility
Ansible 2.9 required.
Roles
object_browser: An Ansible role that generates an HTML file from a hosts facts. The HTML file is in navigatable tree format and provides and easy way to review and report on both inventory information for a host or information gathered about a host during the playbook run.
operating_state: An Ansible role that collects information about the operating state of various resources on a network devices and returns parsed and structured data.
Modules
cli_parse_transform: An Ansible module that combines the running of commands on a network device with the parsing and transformation of the resulting structured data. Use either pyats or the device's native_json support for parsing.
fact_diff: An Ansible module that compares and shows the differences between two facts. When using the default callback, differences are shown during the playbook run. Differences are also returned from the task in the diff_lines key. The task will return changed if the before and after are not equal.
ready_for_modules: An Ansible module that compares structured data to what an Ansible module expects and removes the extranious information. It can also be used to split a single dictionary into multiple dictionaries, one for each module desired
Callback plugins
network_change_log: Shows network device changes during a playbook run as well as a per-device summary of changes when the playbook completes.
Filter plugins
camel_to_snake Convert camelCase keys to snake_case keys.
expand_vlans Expand a range of vlans to a list.
flatten_list_of_dicts Convert a list of dictionaries to a list of values.
keep_keys Select which keys should be kept in the data.
nxos_flatten_table_row Remove the nxos TABLE and ROW keys.
rekey_on_members Turn a list of dictionaries into a dictionary based on a key.
replace_keys Replace keys in the data.
set_root_key Set a root key for the data.
stats Generate statistics from the data.
str_to_native Convert string to their native type.
unnest Promote a child key to it's parent in the tree.
Developer notes
As of Aug 8, two WIP changes need to be made for these to work: