In this post I will cover how to create a Cisco ASAv Vagrant box for use with the
vagrant-libvirt provider as well as enabling the REST API.
This post assumes a working installation of Vagrant with the vagrant-libvirt plugin
already installed. You can follow this
post
to get the...
In this post I will cover how to create a Cisco IOSv Vagrant box for use with the
vagrant-libvirt provider. This post assumes a
working installation of Vagrant with the vagrant-libvirt plugin
already installed. You can follow this
post
to get the vagrant-libvirt plugin installed.
For...
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...
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...
Jenkins is and open source project that helps to
build, test and deploy code. Jenkins is a very mature project in the CI/CD space and has the
ability to perform many automation tasks with the help of plugins.
For this part of series Jenkins will be installed on a Centos 7 minimal hosts
...
Gitlab is an open source platform for collaborating
around code development that is managed via Git. Gitlab presents a nice and friendly web
interface that makes it easy to view and track the changes made to a code base. Gitlab have
a SAAS offering at https://gitlab.com and also release
a...
When using PKI certificates is critical that both DNS is working correctly and that
hosts have their time synced via a reliable NTP server. In this part of the series I will
build a utility server that will act as the DNS, NTP and root certificate authority.
The utility server will use...
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment was traditionally reserved for the
software development space. With the push towards infrastructure as code now making it to
the networking space the idea of bringing CI/CD methodologies down to the network is
gaining alot of...
This page serves as a command reference and comparison of how to get information from
the CLI across multiple networking vendors.
ARP
Show ARP Table
Cisco
show ip arp
Arista
show ip arp
Juniper
show arp
Cumulus
ip...continue reading
As described by their website; Salt is
"Event-driven automation for a software-defined world". You gotta love marketing :)
Salt is a large project with many features including; configuration management, an event
based reactor, cloud management and network automation.
Salt can do ALOT but...