napalm_get_config module to fetch device configurations #193
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This PR introduces a new Ansible module, named
napalm_get_config
to allow playbooks to fetch device configurations using their platform specific NAPALM driverget_config
method.The module supports the same base options as other NAPALM modules: hostname, username, password, dev_os, provider, timeout, and optional_args, along with 3 other options which are used in the
get_config
NAPALM method:and returns back the dict output containing running, startup, and candidate configurations in the result. Example of usage is included in the module docstrings