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Salt SSH Getting Started

Salt SSH allows you to execute commands and apply state to minions without having to install a salt-minion. The only requirement is for the minion to have python installed unless using the -r option to execute raw commands. For reference the following software will be used in this post. ...

Ansible Tips and Tricks

A collection of useful tips and tricks for Ansible which don't really justify a full blog post on their own. I'll keep updating this post when I come across something of value. Callbacks Convert the output of a playbook run to json. Either set the stdout_callback = json setting in...

Oxidized Gitlab Storage Backend

In a previous post I installed and configured Oxidized using the local file system for storage. In this post I will configure Oxidized to use Gitlab community edition as a storage backend. For reference the following software will be used in this post. Oxidized - 0.21.0 Oxidized...

Oxidized Getting Started

Oxidized is a network device configuration backup tool which was developed to be a replacement for Rancid. Oxidized is written in Ruby and is quite extensible, at the time of writing it supports collection of configuration for over 90 network operating system types. In this post I will...

Viptela Control Plane Setup

Viptela is an SDWAN platform now owned by Cisco. In this blog I will setup a Viptela control plane using self signed certificates for the purpose of testing in a lab environment. The recommended mode of operation for production deployments is using Symantec signed certificates that are...

CI/CD For Networking Part 5

Ansible AWX is the upstream open source project to Ansible Tower. For this part of the series AWX will be installed on a Centos 7 minimal host with the firewall service disabled and SELinux set to permissive. Nginx will be utilized as a reverse proxy for HTTP/S traffic to the AWX...
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