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Openstack Packstack Install

Building an Openstack environment can be a daunting, error riddled process. To help alleviate this pain the RDO project provides an "easy button" to install Openstack in an all in one VM for testing purposes called Packstack. RDO is the community supported distribution of Openstack for...

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Salt Overview

Salt is open source software for infrastructure automation. Salt was initially an agent based system but the team have since implemented an ssh based connector for devices that do not support or have the ability to install an agent. This agent/agentless feature give you the ability...continue reading

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Linux Routing On The Host With FRR

Enable routing on the host in Linux with free range routing.

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Linux Routing On The Host With FRR

We've all been there, it's supposed to be a relatively simple change and then BOOM! Spanning tree topology change blows up the network :( There is a movement in the data centre space to push the layer 2 boundary down into the host to avoid the bandwidth waste of spanning tree link blocking and...

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Viptela vSmart Vagrant Libvirt Box Install

Build a Viptela vSmart box for use with the libvirt provider.

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Viptela vManage Vagrant Libvirt Box Install

Build a Viptela vManage box for use with the libvirt provider.

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Viptela vBond/vEdge Vagrant Libvirt Box Install

Build a Viptela vBond/vEdge box for use with the libvirt provider.

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Viptela vSmart Vagrant Libvirt Box Install

Previously I created a vManage and a vBond/vEdge Vagrant box for use with the vagrant-libvirt provider. In this post I will show you how to install a Viptela vSmart appliance for use with the vagrant-libvirt provider. For reference the following software will be used in this post. ...

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Viptela vManage Vagrant Libvirt Box Install

In this post I will install a Viptela vManage appliance for use with the vagrant-libvirt provider. For reference the following software will be used in this post. Viptela vManage - 16.3.2 Vagrant - Vagrant 2.0.1 vagrant-libvirt - 0.4.0 Ubuntu - 1604 Download Viptela does not host any...

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Viptela vBond/vEdge Vagrant Libvirt Box Install

Previously I created a vManage Vagrant box for use with the vagrant-libvirt provider. In this post I will show you how to install a Viptela vBond/vEdge appliance for use with the vagrant-libvirt provider. Since the vBond and vEdge use the same software we can use the same base image to...

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Juniper vSRX Vagrant Libvirt Box Install

Build a Juniper vSRX box for use with the libvirt provider.

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Juniper vSRX Vagrant Libvirt Box Install

In this post I will install a Juniper vSRX for use with the vagrant-libvirt provider. Prior to installing the vSRX there are some required steps to get the KVM host prepped which I will not cover. These steps are covered in the Juniper documentation here. For reference the following...

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Cisco CSR 1000v Vagrant Libvirt Box Install

Build a Cisco CSR 1000v box for use with the libvirt provider.

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Cisco CSR 1000v Vagrant Libvirt Box Install

Recently I converted from using the Virtualbox provider for Vagrant to using the Libvirt provider. This post will cover how to create a Cisco csr1000v Vagrant box for use with the vagrant-libvirt provider. For reference the following software will be used in this post. Cisco csr1000v -...

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Pseudo-wires With Vagrant and Libvirt

Build P2P links between Vagrant guests with UDP tunnels.

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Pseudo-wires With Vagrant and Libvirt

Libvirt has the ability to create a pseudo-wire between virtual guest interfaces using either TCP or UDP. The advantage of using pseud-wires is that you do not need to create virtual switches to attach your guest VM interfaces to. Virtualbox has an annoying trait of stripping vlan tags on...

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Arista vEOS Vagrant Libvirt Box Install

Build an Arista vEOS box for use with the libvirt provider.

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Arista vEOS Vagrant Libvirt Box Install

In this post I will cover how to create an Arista 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...

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Linux Network Components Used In Openstack

The components used under the hood in Openstack Neutron networks.

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Linux Network Components Used In Openstack

In November 2017 I had the chance to attended the Openstack summit in Sydney Australia. I went to a great session lead by Phil Hopkins from Rackspace on how Openstack Neutron utilizes network namespaces and VXLANs in linux to achieve multi-tenancy. The contents of this blog came largely from...