After many months of labor, I’m pleased to share that our NSO reservable sandbox and NSO At all times-On sandbox have acquired a well-deserved improve. The NSO sandboxes are a fantastic companion as you go in your automation journey, and while you want a fast atmosphere 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’re able to go.
Now let’s discover the improve now we have ready for you.
NSO At all times-On Sandbox
The NSO At all times-On sandbox has been migrated to the NSO official container. We constructed on prime of the container to make sure the sandbox is all the time out there 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 gadgets, we are able to show a primary atmosphere.
This sandbox is read-only, which is supposed for a fast look and easy exams, for instance API calls to sync the gadgets to NSO. If you happen to require an atmosphere the place you may get your arms soiled, maintain 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 have 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 should have prepared NSO situations in a deterministic state.
In case you are interested in 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 acquired additionally a change and fixes. You can see now a topology consisting of a number of community gadgets and hosts that mimic two networks, one for improvement and one for manufacturing.
You may work together immediately with the gadgets utilizing TELNET/SSH or by means of 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 exams on improvement 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 too can 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 excited by what you suppose we must always add subsequent, what you want or what you’re interested in it.
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