After many months of labor, I’m completely happy 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 whenever you want a fast setting to check your concepts. Moreover, the very 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 we’ve got 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 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 gadgets, we will show a fundamental setting.
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. If you happen to require an setting 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 could have 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.
If you’re inquisitive about 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 find now a topology consisting of a number of community gadgets and hosts that mimic two networks, one for improvement and one for manufacturing.
You possibly can work together straight 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 whenever you wish to use a pipeline that checks 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. It’s also possible to discover a demo venture (because of the Cisco CSS CX Automation workforce) and a GitLab runner prepared for use with pipelines. An instance will come quickly.
What’s Subsequent
Now we 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 curious about what you assume we should always add subsequent, what you want or what you might be inquisitive about it.
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