In this video we'll explore how to get started with Network Automation. This video will walk through some thoughts behind setting up your lab environment, addressing the nodes, and two different ways I like to setup the environment. This is mostly dictated by the scale of my lab, what tools I want to use with CML for automation, and how much IP address space I have available. We'll look at ways to use VScode to interact with the nodes in our lab, and finally, setup pip, ansible, and ansible-pylibssh in the CML nodes. 00:00 - Opening Title 00:07 - Content overview 02:27 - Setting up Cisco Modeling Labs 10:15 - Setting up Visual Studio Code 22:10 - Package installation Lab YAML for import (requires CML 2.8):