nornir_napalm VS junos-ansible

Using that format we can push using nornir (https://nornir.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) and the nornir napalm plugin (https://github.com/nornir-automation/nornir_napalm).

I like Nornir quite a bit. As you mentioned about Napalm is pretty good at 'getting' and luckily enough there is a Napalm plugin for Nornir

This is a repo that helped me kind of understand the whole config render, diff, push to device paradigm. https://github.com/yzguy/junos-ansible. Specifically the NAPALM part with Ansible.

Have you heard of NAPALM and Ansible NAPALM? You can basically do what you're doing right now, but IMO it's a much better experience. This repo helped me a lot in understanding how to use it: https://github.com/yzguy/junos-ansible

I found this repo helpful for seeing what you could do with Ansible in interms of network automation: https://github.com/yzguy/junos-ansible

junos-ansible

If you go a bit further, you can use Ansible + NAPALM together to render full configurations, then push them to devices, example I did here: https://github.com/yzguy/junos-ansible

I have a very basic example doing this with JunOS + Ansible here: https://github.com/yzguy/junos-ansible

The ansible_network_os: junos might be fine, it's been a while so I can't remember if there was a reason why I did the longer path. Looking at the docs again, it looks like they use the longer one, so I probably copied that. You should have them install python-virtualenv, that way you can create virtualenvs, and then inside of those install whatever packages you want. You don't need sudo to do it. Ideally you don't want to install a bunch of python packages into your root. If you do a virtualenv, you can point ansible to it in your ansible.cfg