This blog covers how to install Juniper boxes for use with Vagrant. This post assumes that you already have a
working vagrant install.
Plugins
Firstly install the Juniper plugins to enable Vagrant to communicate to the boxes correctly.
cmd
vagrant plugin install vagrant-host-shell...
This blog covers how to install Arista boxes for use with Vagrant. Although Arista does not provide Vagrant boxes
on Vagrant cloud they do provide boxes that can be downloaded from the arista.com website. This post assumes that
you already have a working vagrant install.
Download
Go to the...
Hell has nine layers
.... so does the OSI model. I know, I know, you have been taught that
the OSI model has seven layers. See the illustration below for the proof.
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This is the first part of a three part series on Ansible Tower.
In this series we will download, install, and configure Ansible Tower with user, groups
and to execute jobs.
Code versions used for this lab
Python - 2.7.5
Ansible - 2.2.1
Centos 7 - minimal 1511
Ansible Tower -...
Vagrant by Hashi Corp is an extremely useful tool for building and
configuring reproducible development environments. Vagrant enables this with the sharing of
configuration files that are used to build exactly the same environment every time. This allows
for collaborative development with...
This is part two of a series on Anisble for network engineers. In this part of the series
we will take the playbook from
part one
and convert it into roles.
Roles in Ansible allow for easy re-use and sharing of code and it is important to understand them
as they will use role based...
This is part one of a series on Anisble for network engineers. The series will concentrate
on Ansible as a configuration management tool for networking and is aimed at those with a basic
understanding of Ansible. If you are just starting out with Ansible, see my quick start guide
here
and...
Ansible is a configuration management platform that sits in the DevOps space along with
Puppet, Chef and
Salt Stack. Touted as being 'radically simple' its possible
to get value from Ansible quite quickly with no programming experience required.
Architecture
Ansible does not use agents...