This repository contains two folders ansible and napalm. Each one does the same thing but using different frameworks for network automation. What is that thing? Deploying & validating Jinja2 based interface and bgp configuration to three different Cisco CSR1000v routers.
The project in the napalm directory is intended to be run from a python3 virtualenv. It requires napalm and j2cli.
- Generate interface configurations for each CSR device by editing interfaces.j2 and changing the node to be either csr1, csr2, or csr3.
- Then run
j2 -f yaml interfaces.j2 challenge.yml > csr1_intf.cfgand change csr1 to csr2, or csr3 as needed depending upon what you have set in interfaces.j2 - Do the same thing for bgp.j2
I've included a script called gen_configs.sh that when run will do all of the above manual work for you. chmod +x gen_configs.sh && ./gen_configs.sh
Once the configurations have been generated you can edit config.py to change the device (ie. csr1, csr2, or csr3) and run it using python3 config.py. You should expect to run it 6 times. 3 times for each L2 configuration deployment and another 3 for each BGP deployment.
Run: ansible-playbook -i hosts config.yml