After many months of labor, I’m pleased to share that our NSO reservable sandbox and NSO All the time-On sandbox have obtained a well-deserved improve. The NSO sandboxes are a fantastic companion as you go in your automation journey, and while you want a fast surroundings to check your concepts. Moreover, one of the best factor is, the NSO Sandboxes are free to make use of! Its so simple as making a reservation by hitting the Launch button and you might be able to go.
Now let’s discover the improve now we have ready for you.
NSO All the time-On Sandbox
The NSO All the time-On sandbox has been migrated to the NSO official container. We constructed on high of the container to make sure the sandbox is at all times out there and straightforward to replace and handle.
A NSO router package deal was put in (this package deal is taken from the NSO built-in examples) and utilizing Netsim gadgets, we are able to show a fundamental surroundings.
This sandbox is read-only, which is supposed for a fast look and easy checks, for instance API calls to sync the gadgets to NSO. In case you require an surroundings the place you may get your arms soiled, preserve studying.
NSO Reservable Sandbox
The NSO reservable sandbox is the place the place you wish to take a look at your concepts and break issues. You might have now at your disposal three NSO situations of System set up, that are nice for Excessive Availability eventualities amongst different issues.
The key to having these three situations is once more the NSO official container, which we used so as to add all of the packages, NEDs and configuration required at constructed time. So, when the sandbox is launched, you should have prepared NSO situations in a deterministic state.
If you’re interested in it, check out the NSO Containers Reservable Sandbox repository the place we revealed the scripts, Dockerfile, and configuration used to construct this container.
CML Topology
However not solely the NSO situations have been up to date. The CML topology obtained additionally a change and fixes. You will discover now a topology consisting of a number of community gadgets and hosts that mimic two networks, one for growth and one for manufacturing.
You possibly can work together immediately with the gadgets utilizing TELNET/SSH or by NSO. The NSO situations have the minimal required configuration to work with them.
This topology is nice while you wish to use a pipeline that checks on growth and deploys on manufacturing.
GitLab
Talking about pipelines, the GitLab occasion contained in the sandbox was additionally upgraded with a more recent GitLab model. You too can discover a demo undertaking (due to the Cisco CSS CX Automation crew) and a GitLab runner prepared for use with pipelines. An instance will come quickly.
What’s Subsequent
We now have many concepts for what we may add and improve to the sandboxes, in addition to including examples that may use their full potential. However I’m extra all in favour of what you assume we must always add subsequent, what you want or what you might be interested in it.
Wish to study extra
Listed here are some hyperlinks you wish to save (or save this weblog) to study extra about NSO.
Wish to get extra content material about NSO? Attain out to me on LinkedIn. I’m pleased to listen to your concepts.
Share:
