Backup Config on Mikrotik RouterOS — Ansible Network community.routeros

How to automate network device configuration backup for Mikrotik RouterOS network appliances connecting via SSH protocol using the username and password credentials and save it to a file using Ansible Network community.routeros collection.

How to Backup Config on Mikrotik RouterOS with Ansible?

Maintaining a backup copy of your network appliance configuration is a good practice for all IT Professionals. You could automate this process for Mikrotik RouterOS appliances using Ansible.

I’m going to show you a live demo with some simple Ansible code.

I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.

Ansible Backup Config on Mikrotik RouterOS

• `community.routeros`
• Modules for MikroTik RouterOS

Let’s talk about the Ansible collection `community.routeros`.
The full name is `community.routeros`, which means that is an Ansible…