Automating the VXLAN EVPN Fabric with Ansible

Second in the series. With the manual baseline established, this article covers rebuilding the same leaf-spine EVPN-VXLAN fabric using Ansible: role structure, inventory design for a fabric with distinct leaf and spine roles, and the NX-OS-specific modules used to push underlay, overlay, and VNI configuration idempotently.

Also covered: variable structure for per-device and per-role data, running the playbooks against the same NX-OS 9000v topology from the first article, and the early validation checks used to confirm the automated build matched the manual baseline.

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