Ansible, Nornir, or Custom Python — Choosing Your Automation Layer

Welcome to Amaze Networks. It's Saturday, April twenty-fifth, and today we're going deep on something that every network engineer running automation has had to wrestle with — whether you realize it or not.

The tool question. Ansible, Nornir, raw Python — the choice that shapes how your automation actually behaves at scale, and whether it's still maintainable in two years.

And here's why this matters right now, not just as an evergreen topic. Ivan Pepelnjak published a piece in December twenty twenty-five that basically said: Ansible's core network configuration modules are broken, have been broken since core twelve, and nobody at Red Hat caught it for four releases.