Fortinet Automation with Python & Ansible

Automate Fortinet firewalls with Ansible. Streamline FortiOS & FortiGate tasks, manage updates, backups, and AI-assisted solutions with best practices.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Automating the FortiGate and FortiOS APIs with Python and Ansible

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AI LLM prompt engineering for generating Ansible solutions

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Ansible collections for FortiGate and FortiOS network security appliances

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Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 5 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • FortiGate and FortiOS Administrators
  • Security Engineers
  • DevOps Engineers
  • System and Cloud Administrators

Description

Supercharge the pace of FortiOS and FortiGate Next Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) administration operations with Python and Ansible tool sets. In this 5 day instructor led course, students write code to automate the FortiOS and FortiGate REST APIs. Automate common tasks such as update, change, backup operations, and more. All lessons focus on best practice techniques, including interacting with git, GitHub or GitLab, and writing prompts for AI LLM tools to generate relevant solutions.

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Overview

Software Control Management

Automating with Linux Tools

FortiGate and FortiOS REST API

Python

Ansible Basics

Ansible and FortiGate and FortiOS

Critical Ansible Modules and Techniques

Creating Manageable Solutions

Security

AI LLM Prompting

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