How does a typical Ansible-to-IOS-XE playbook workflow reach the sw…

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How does a typical Ansible-to-IOS-XE playbook workflow reach the switches in DEVCOR 5.3.a?

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Agentlessly over SSH/networkcli (or the equivalent network connection)—no device agent required. — Ansible phones the switch over SSH like a remote help desk—no Puppet agent living in the wiring closet.

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By installing a mandatory Puppet agent on every Catalyst before the play runs.

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Only through a local IOx app container running on each switch as an Ansible agent.

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By embedding a Terraform provider binary in flash: on the device.

How does a typical Ansible-to-IOS-XE playbook workflow reach the switches in DEVCOR 5.3.a?

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