pyATS vs Ansible: Choosing the Right Tool for Network Automation

After posting some content on social media platforms about pyATS, I received some questions from different sources: "Should I learn pyATS or Ansible first?"

For me, it's the wrong question you are asking, not because it is dumb; it's actually the right intention you should have, because it proves you're trying to pick a lane for a cold start. but you are not. These two tools solve completely different problems, and if you have experience in a live production environment, you will definitely get to know why you need both tools.

Let me break down why both the tools are required:

Ansible and pyATS play completely different Sports

Ansible is an executor, whereas pyATS is a validator.

Ansible is responsible for configuration management and deployment. You write a playbook describing that "These VLANs should exist", "This ACL should be modified", "NTP should point to these servers...

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