After many months of labor, I’m blissful to share that our NSO reservable sandbox and NSO All the time-On sandbox have obtained a well-deserved improve. The NSO sandboxes are an excellent companion as you go in your automation journey, and if you want a fast atmosphere to check your concepts. Moreover, the perfect 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’re able to go.
Now let’s discover the improve we now 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 prime of the container to make sure the sandbox is at all times accessible and simple to replace and handle.
A NSO router bundle was put in (this bundle is taken from the NSO built-in examples) and utilizing Netsim units, we will show a primary atmosphere.
This sandbox is read-only, which is supposed for a fast look and easy checks, for instance API calls to sync the units to NSO. In the event you require an atmosphere the place you will get your fingers soiled, preserve studying.
NSO Reservable Sandbox
The NSO reservable sandbox is the place the place you wish to check your concepts and break issues. You’ve got now at your disposal three NSO situations of System set up, that are nice for Excessive Availability situations 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’ll have prepared NSO situations in a deterministic state.
In case you are interested by it, check out the NSO Containers Reservable Sandbox repository the place we printed the scripts, Dockerfile, and configuration used to construct this container.
CML Topology
However not solely the NSO situations had been up to date. The CML topology obtained additionally a change and fixes. You can find now a topology consisting of a number of community units and hosts that mimic two networks, one for growth and one for manufacturing.
You possibly can work together immediately with the units utilizing TELNET/SSH or by means of NSO. The NSO situations have the minimal required configuration to work with them.
This topology is nice if 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 moderen GitLab model. You may as well discover a demo mission (due to the Cisco CSS CX Automation group) and a GitLab runner prepared for use with pipelines. An instance will come quickly.
What’s Subsequent
We’ve got many concepts for what we might add and improve to the sandboxes, in addition to including examples that may use their full potential. However I’m extra involved in what you assume we must always add subsequent, what you want or what you’re interested by it.
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