About this repository

Various tools for Arista EOS automation (Python libraries, Ansible ...) packaged in a Dockerfile at the root of this repository.

Requirements

install Docker on your laptop.

Docker image

In order to get a Docker image:

either you pull the docker image that is already built and available on Docker Hub
or you create a Docker image yourself from the Dockerfile.

Pull the docker image from Docker Hub

docker pull ksator/arista_eos_automation_tools_dockerized:latest

docker images | grep arista
ksator/arista_eos_automation_tools_dockerized   latest              177c59b2bc31        9 minutes ago       685MB

Create a Docker image from the Dockerfile

Move to the local directory which contains the Dockerfile and run this command.

docker build --tag eos_automation:1.0 .

docker images | grep eos_automation
eos_automation                  1.0                 65dec9ed3519        19 minutes ago      685MB

Instanciate a Docker container

Move to the local directory which contains your scripts and run this command to instanciate and start a container.

docker run -it -v $PWD:/projects --name eos_automation_container eos_automation:1.0

Your local scripts will be mounted to /projects in the container.

root@7d4eb0a7fb0a:/projects# ls

About the container

Ubuntu version:

root@7d4eb0a7fb0a:/projects# uname -a
Linux 7d4eb0a7fb0a 4.19.76-linuxkit #1 SMP Tue May 26 11:42:35 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

root@7d4eb0a7fb0a:/projects# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu Groovy Gorilla (development branch)
Release:        20.10
Codename:       groovy

Python version:

root@7d4eb0a7fb0a:/projects# python3 -V
Python 3.8.3

Verify some packages:

root@7d4eb0a7fb0a:/projects# pip3 list | grep 'ansible\|pyang'
ansible          2.9.7
pyang            2.2.1
pyangbind        0.8.1
root@7d4eb0a7fb0a:/projects#

Ansible version:

root@7d4eb0a7fb0a:/projects# ansible --version
ansible 2.9.11
  config file = /projects/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.8.4 (default, Jul 13 2020, 21:16:07) [GCC 9.3.0]

Verify Ansible collection:

ls -l ~/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/arista/eos/

Test the container

Device configuration:

s7152#show running-config section management api
management api http-commands
   protocol http
   no shutdown
s7152#

Run an eAPI test (python) from the container:

from jsonrpclib import Server
from pprint import pprint as pp
username = "arista"
password = "arista"
ip = "10.83.28.218"
url = "http://" + username + ":" + password + "@" + ip + "/command-api"
switch = Server(url)
result=switch.runCmds(version=1,cmds=["show version"])
pp(result) 
result[0]['version']