my technical experience
I thought I’d share my experience using Ansible and Cisco ASA firewalls in multi-context mode. Right from the beginning I had a few issues deploying the configuration and the switch between the different security context didn’t work well. I got the error you see below when I tried to run a playbook. Other times the …
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Ken Murphy from networkautomationblog.com asked me to do a more detailed post about how to setup Gitlab-Runner on your local server to use with Gitlab-CI. I will not get into too much detail about the installation because Gitlab has a very detailed information about it which you can find here: https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/linux-repository.html Once the Gitlab Runner is installed on …
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Over the Christmas holidays, I was working just for fun on an Arista vEOS Vagrant topology and Ansible Playbook. I reused my Ansible Playbook from my previous post about an Ansible Playbook for Cumulus Linux BGP IP-Fabric and Cumulus NetQ Validation. Arista only has a Virtualbox vEOS image and there is an ISO image to boot …
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This post is about continuous integration and continuous delivery (CICD) for Cisco devices and how to use network simulation to test automation before deploying this to production environments. That was one of the main reasons for me to use Vagrant for simulating the network because the virtual environment can be created on-demand and thrown away …
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Here some interesting things I did with on-demand network simulation of Cisco IOSv and IOS XE using Vagrant. Yes, Cisco has is own product for network simulation called Cisco VIRL (Cisco Virtual Internet Routing Lab) but this is not as flexible and on-demand like using Vagrant and KVM. One of the reason was to do …
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