The arista.eos-system role creates an abstraction for common, global system configuration. This means that you do not need to write any ansible tasks. Simply create an object that matches the requirements below and this role will ingest that object and perform the necessary configuration.
This role specifically enables configuration of IP Routing, the hostname and CLI users.
ansible-galaxy install arista.eos-system
Requires an SSH connection for connectivity to your Arista device. You can use
any of the built-in eos connection variables, or the convenience provider
dictionary.
The tasks in this role are driven by the hostname and eos_ip_routing_enabled
and eos_users objects described below:
hostname
| Key | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| hostname | string | The ASCII string to use to configure the hostname value in the nodes current running-configuration. |
eos_ip_routing_enabled
| Key | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| eos_ip_routing_enabled | boolean: true, false* | Configures the state of IPv4 'ip routing' on the switch. By default EOS switches come up with 'no ip routing' |
eos_users (list) each entry contains the following keys:
| Key | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| name | string (required) | The unique username. The username must adhere to certain format guidelines. Valid usernames begin with A-Z, a-z, or 0-9 and may also contain any of these characters: @#$%^&*-_= +;<>,.~ |
| encryption | choices: md5, sha512 | Defines the encryption format of the password provided in the corresponding secret key. |
| secret | string | This key is used in conjunction with encryption. The value should be a hashed password that was previously generated. |
| nopassword | boolean: true, false* | The nopassword key is used to create a user with no password assigned. This attribute is mutually exclusive with secret and encryption. |
| role | string | Configures the role assigned to the user. |
| privilege | int: 0-15 | Configures the privilege level for the user. Permitted values are integers between 0 and 15. The EOS default privilege is 1 if you omit this key. |
| sshkey | string | Configures an sshkey for the CLI user. This sshkey will end up in /home/USER/.ssh/authorized_keys. |
| state | choices: present*, absent | Set the state for the CLI User |
Note: Asterisk (*) denotes the default value if none specified
| Key | Choices | Description |
|---|---|---|
| eos_save_running_config | true*, false | Specifies whether to write any changes to the running-config resulting from the role execution to memory, copying the configuration to the startup-config. |
Note: Asterisk (*) denotes the default value if none specified
Ansible EOS roles require the following connection information to establish communication with the nodes in your inventory. This information can exist in the Ansible group_vars or host_vars directories, or in the playbook itself.
| Key | Required | Choices | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| host | yes | Specifies the DNS host name or address for connecting to the remote device over the specified transport. The value of host is used as the destination address for the transport. | |
| port | no | Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device. This value applies to either acceptable value of transport. The port value will default to the appropriate transport common port if none is provided in the task (cli=22, http=80, https=443). | |
| username | no | Configures the usename to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. The value of username is used to authenticate either the CLI login or the eAPI authentication depending on which transport is used. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME will be used instead. | |
| password | no | Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This is a common argument used for either acceptable value of transport. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD will be used instead. | |
| ssh_keyfile | no | Specifies the SSH keyfile to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This argument is only used when transport=cli. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE will be used instead. | |
| authorize | no | yes, no* | Instructs the module to enter priviledged mode on the remote device before sending any commands. If not specified, the device will attempt to excecute all commands in non-priviledged mode. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_AUTHORIZE will be used instead. |
| auth_pass | no | Specifies the password to use if required to enter privileged mode on the remote device. If authorize=no, then this argument does nothing. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_AUTH_PASS will be used instead. | |
| transport | yes | cli*, eapi | Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device. The transport argument supports connectivity to the device over cli (ssh) or eapi. |
| use_ssl | no | yes*, no | Configures the transport to use SSL if set to true only when transport=eapi. If transport=cli, this value is ignored. |
| provider | no | Convience method that allows all the above connection arguments to be passed as a dict object. All constraints (required, choices, etc) must be met either by individual arguments or values in this dict. |
Note: Asterisk (*) denotes the default value if none specified
| Key | Choices | Description |
|---|---|---|
| no_log | true, false* | Prevents module arguments and output from being logged during the playbook execution. By default, no_log is set to true for tasks that gather and save EOS configuration information to reduce output size. Set to true to prevent all output other than task results. |
Note: Asterisk (*) denotes the default value if none specified
The eos-system role is built on modules included in the core Ansible code. These modules were added in ansible version 2.1.0
- Ansible 2.1.0
The following example will use the arista.eos-system role to completely setup
CLI users, ip routing and the switch hostname without writing any tasks. We'll create a
hosts file with our switch, then a corresponding host_vars file and
then a simple playbook which only references the eos-system role. By including
the role, we automatically get access to all of the tasks to configure system
features. What's nice about this is that if you have a host without system
configuration, the tasks will be skipped without any issue.
Sample hosts file:
[leafs]
leaf1.example.com
Sample host_vars/leaf1.example.com
provider:
host: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
username: admin
password: admin
use_ssl: no
authorize: yes
transport: cli
eos_users:
- name: superadmin
encryption: md5
secret: '$1$J0auuPhz$Pkr5NnHssW.Jqlk17Ylpk0'
privilege: 15
role: network-admin
- name: simplebob
nopassword: true
privilege: 0
role: network-operator
hostname: leaf1
eos_ip_routing_enabled: yes
A simple playbook to configure bridging, leaf.yml
- hosts: leafs
roles:
- arista.eos-system
Then run with:
ansible-playbook -i hosts leaf.yml
Development contributions are welcome. Please see Arista Roles for Ansible - Development Guidelines (test/arista-ansible-role-test/README) for additional information, including how to develop and run test cases for role development.
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