This talk will do a deep dive on how Ansible can be used to assess the operational state of your IT infrastructure (especially network appliances) and effectively take remediation actions as required. This talk will do a deep dive on how Ansible can be used to assess the operational state of your IT infrastructure (especially network appliances) and effectively take remediation actions as required. The following will be demonstrated for both Linux as well as network devices. Collect the current operational state from the remote host and convert it into normalised structure data. Define the desired state criteria in a standard’s based format Validate the current state data against the pre-defined criteria to identify if there is any deviation. Take corrective remediation action as required.