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Assist and automation

Automation Studio

Run playbooks against lab inventory (spine / leaf / border groups), including Guided Lab solution playbooks and scheduled runs.

Automation Studio
Automation Studio

Goal

Run playbooks against lab inventory (spine / leaf / border groups), including Guided Lab solution playbooks and scheduled runs.

Open it

  1. Open Automation Studio from the OS app launcher, or
  2. From a lab, open the in-lab Automation panel locked to that lab

What you get

SurfaceUse it for
Playbook treeDC fabric starters, Guided_Labs catalogs, your saved YAML
InventoryAuto groups from node names / roles
EditorEdit playbook body; secrets are redacted in run logs
RunApply / show / validate steps against matching hosts
SchedulesCron-style enable/disable with last / next run stamps
CredentialsNamed platform credentials for device access

Recipe: run a fabric playbook

  1. Select the lab
  2. Open a playbook (for example DC_Fabric/01_Deploy_Fabric.yml)
  3. Confirm inventory groups match your node names
  4. Click Run / Play and watch the output dock
  5. Fix failed hosts from the console or Config Studio, then re-run

Guided Labs can seed Guided_Labs/... playbooks (apply startup, validate, checkpoint checks). Prefer those when teaching a packaged scenario.