The Ansible Cisco NX-OS collection includes a variety of Ansible content to help automate the management of Cisco NX-OS network appliances.

The Cisco NX-OS connection plugins combined with Cisco NX-OS resource modules aligns the Cisco NX-OS experience with the other core networking platforms supported by Ansible.

This collection has been tested against Cisco N9K-C9300v chassis running NX-OS 9.3.6. The modules with full support for Cisco MDS are tested against NX-OS 8.4(1) on MDS Switches.

This collection has been tested against following Ansible versions: >=2.14.0.

For collections that support Ansible 2.9, please ensure you update your network_os to use the fully qualified collection name (for example, cisco.ios.ios). Plugins and modules within a collection may be tested with only specific Ansible versions. A collection may contain metadata that identifies these versions. PEP440 is the schema used to describe the versions of Ansible.

The Cisco NX-OS collection supports network_cli and httpapi connections. A detailed platform guide can be found here.

Click the Content button to see the list of content included in this collection.

You can install the Cisco NX-OS collection with the Ansible Galaxy CLI:

ansible-galaxy collection install cisco.nxos

You can also include it in a requirements.yml file and install it with ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml, using the format:

---
collections:
  - name: cisco.nxos

This collection includes network resource modules.

You can call modules by their Fully Qualified Collection Namespace (FQCN), such as cisco.nxos.nxos_l2_interfaces. The following example task replaces configuration changes in the existing configuration on a Cisco NX-OS network device, using the FQCN:

---
  - name: Replace device configuration of specified L2 interfaces with provided configuration.
    cisco.nxos.nxos_l2_interfaces:
      config:
        - name: Ethernet1/1
          trunk:
            native_vlan: 20
            trunk_vlans: 5-10, 15
      state: replaced

NOTE: For Ansible 2.9, you may not see deprecation warnings when you run your playbooks with this collection. Use this documentation to track when a module is deprecated.

• Cisco NX-OS Platform Options
• Ansible Using collections for more details.

Ongoing development efforts and contributions to this collection are solely focused on enhancements to current resource modules, additional resource modules and enhancements to connection plugins.

We welcome community contributions to this collection. If you find problems, please open an issue or create a PR against the Cisco NX-OS collection repository. See Contributing to Ansible-maintained collections for complete details.

You can also join us on:

• IRC - the #ansible-network libera.chat channel
• Slack - https://ansiblenetwork.slack.com

See the Ansible Community Guide for details on contributing to Ansible.

This collection follows the Ansible project's Code of Conduct. Please read and familiarize yourself with this document.

Release notes are available here.

• Ansible network resources
• Ansible Collection overview
• Ansible User guide
• Ansible Developer guide
• Ansible Community code of conduct

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See LICENSE to see the full text.