A company wants to provision a set of identical network segments in a cloud environment. They need to track the exact configuration in version control and be able to recreate the same environment in a different region. Which tool is best suited for this task?

Ansible with an ad-hoc command that creates the segments.

Terraform with an imperative script that runs in order.

Cisco NSO with a service model that defines the segments.

Terraform with a declarative configuration and a remote state backend.

A network team is evaluating automation tools. They have a requirement to manage configuration drift on existing devices, and they also want to provision new cloud resources. They have a small team with limited Python skills. Which tool combination should they choose?

Terraform for both configuration management and cloud provisioning.

Ansible for both configuration management and cloud provisioning.

Ansible for configuration management and Terraform for cloud provisioning.

Cisco NSO for both configuration management and cloud provisioning.

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A company wants to provision a set of identical network segments in a cloud environment. They need to track the exact configuration in version control and be able to recreate the same environment in a different region. Which tool is best suited for this task?

A network team is evaluating automation tools. They have a requirement to manage configuration drift on existing devices, and they also want to provision new cloud resources. They have a small team with limited Python skills. Which tool combination should they choose?

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