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# ansible-aci

The ansible-aci project provides an Ansible collection for managing and automating your Cisco ACI environment. It consists of a set of modules and roles for performing tasks related to ACI.
## Description

This collection has been tested and supports ACI 3.2+.
Modules supporting new features introduced in ACI API in specific ACI versions might not be supported in earlier ACI releases.
The `ansible-aci` project provides an Ansible collection for managing and automating your Cisco ACI environment. It consists of a set of modules and roles for performing tasks related to ACI.

*Note: This collection is not compatible with versions of Ansible before v2.8.*
See the [cisco.aci collection index](https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/cisco/aci/content/) for a full list of modules and plugins.

## Requirements

Ansible v2.14 or newer
- Ansible v2.15 or newer
- Python v3.10 or newer

## Install
Follow the [Installing Ansible](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html) guide for detailed instructions.

Ansible must be installed
## Installation

Before using this collection, you need to install it with the Ansible Galaxy command-line tool:

```sh
sudo pip install ansible
ansible-galaxy collection install cisco.aci
```

Install the collection
You can also include this collection in a `requirements.yml` file and install it with:

```sh
ansible-galaxy collection install cisco.aci
ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml
```

## Use
Using the following `requirements.yml` format:

Once the collection is installed, you can use it in a playbook by specifying the full namespace path to the module, plugin and/or role.
```yaml
collections:
- name: cisco.aci
```
```yml
- hosts: aci
gather_facts: no
Note that if you install any collections from Ansible Galaxy, they will not be upgraded automatically when you upgrade the Ansible package.
To upgrade the collection to the latest available version, run the following command:
tasks:
- name: Add a new EPG
cisco.aci.aci_epg:
hostname: apic
username: admin
password: SomeSecretPassword
tenant: production
ap: intranet
epg: web_epg
description: Web Intranet EPG
bd: prod_bd
delegate_to: localhost
```sh
ansible-galaxy collection install cisco.aci --upgrade
```

## Optimizing Playbooks
You can also install a specific version of the collection. For example, to install version 1.0.0, use the following syntax:

To find out more about optimizing playbook execution, please refer to the [Optimizing Playbooks](docs/optimizing.md) documentation.
```sh
ansible-galaxy collection install cisco.aci:==1.0.0
```

## Update
See [using Ansible collections](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/user_guide/collections_using.html) for more details.

Getting the latest/nightly collection build
### Latest Build

### First Approach
Follow these instructions to get the latest collection by building it from the source code.

Clone the ansible-aci repository.

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ansible-galaxy collection install cisco-aci-* --force
```

### Second Approach
## Use Cases

Once the collection is installed, you can use it in a playbook by specifying the full namespace path to the module, plugin and/or role.

### Adding a new EPG

```yml
- hosts: aci
gather_facts: no

Go to [ansible-aci Actions](https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/ansible-aci/actions)
tasks:
- name: Add a new EPG
cisco.aci.aci_epg:
hostname: apic
username: admin
password: SomeSecretPassword
tenant: production
ap: intranet
epg: web_epg
description: Web Intranet EPG
bd: prod_bd
delegate_to: localhost
```
Select the latest CI build
## Optimizing Playbooks
Under Artifacts download collection and unzip it using Terminal or Console.
There are two main methods to optimize the execution of ACI modules in your playbooks.
*Note: The collection file is a zip file containing a tar.gz file. We recommend using CLI because some GUI-based unarchiver might unarchive both nested archives in one go.*
1. Using the ACI HTTPAPI plugin
1. Using the `suppress_` options

Install the unarchived tar.gz file
To find out more about optimizing playbook execution, please refer to the [Optimizing Playbooks](docs/optimizing.md) documentation.

```sh
ansible-galaxy collection install cisco-aci-1.0.0.tar.gz —-force
```
## Testing

### See Also
Integration tests for each module in the `cisco.aci` collection are executed on the following ACI versions:

- [Ansible Using collections](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/collections_using.html) for more details.
- 4.2
- 5.2
- 6.0

## Contributing to this collection
## Contributing

Ongoing development efforts and contributions to this collection are tracked as issues in this repository.

We welcome community contributions to this collection. If you find problems, need an enhancement or need a new module, please open an issue or create a PR against the [Cisco ACI collection repository](https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/ansible-aci/issues).

## Support

This collection supports any ACI version within the Last Day of Support (LDOS) date.

Certain modules and options in the collection are only available from specific versions of ACI. The versions that a module or option supports are documented in the individual module documentation.

To find EOL announcements for ACI versions, refer to the [End-of-Life and End-of-Sale Notices](https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-management/application-policy-infrastructure-controller-apic/eos-eol-notice-listing.html) page.

## Release Notes

See the [Changelog](CHANGELOG.rst) for full release notes.

## Related Information

For further information and guides, refer to the following:

- [Cisco ACI DevNet Documentation](https://developer.cisco.com/docs/aci/ansible/#cisco-aci-ansible-modules)
- [Automating ACI using Ansible](https://developer.cisco.com/docs/nexus-as-code/aci-with-ansible/#automating-aci-using-ansible)
- [ACI Programmability Learning Lab](https://developer.cisco.com/learning/tracks/aci-programmability/)

## License Information

This collection is licensed under the [GNU General Public License v3.0](LICENSE)

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