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Here a basic Ansible Playbook for a Cumulus Linux lab which I use for testing. Similar spine and leaf configuration I used in my recent data centre redesign, the playbook includes one VRF and all SVIs are joined the VRF. I use the Cumulus VX appliance under GNS3 which you can get for free at …
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In my recent data centre network redesign project I used Cumulus Linux on Open Networking switches from Dell (S3048-ON and S4048-ON). I heard from Cumulus Networks around 2 1/2 years ago and did some testing with the VX appliance back then but I was waiting for the official release of the VRF feature. Ones I …
Kubernetes in Docker (KinD) Ephemeral Kubernetes cluster running in Docker container runtime. Kubernetes in Docker (KinD) – Cluster Bootstrap Script for Continuous Integration Kubernetes Cluster Lifecycle / Cluster API Deploy Kubernetes (cattle) cluster using API driven cluster provisioning. Kubernetes Cluster API – Provision workload clusters on AWS, Kubernetes Cluster API – Machine Health Check and AWS Spot instances …
Moving away from Cisco and using Open Networking whitebox switches with Cumulus Linux made me think about performance monitoring. In the past I was a fan of Solarwinds NPM but the traditional SNMP based monitoring is pretty outdated and not standard anymore when using Linux based operating systems. I was exploring different other options and …
As I have mentioned my previous post about Getting started with Gitlab-CI for Network Automation, Jenkins is another continuous integration pipelining tool you can use for network automation. Have a look about how to install Jenkins: https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Installing+Jenkins+on+Ubuntu To use the Jenkins with Vagrant and KVM (libvirt) there are a few changes needed on the linux server similar …
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