After many months of labor, I’m pleased to share that our NSO reservable sandbox and NSO All the time-On sandbox have acquired a well-deserved improve. The NSO sandboxes are an excellent companion as you go in your automation journey, and whenever you want a fast surroundings to check your concepts. Moreover, the most effective 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 All the time-On Sandbox
The NSO All the time-On sandbox has been migrated to the NSO official container. We constructed on high of the container to make sure the sandbox is all the time out there and simple to replace and handle.
A NSO router package deal was put in (this package deal is taken from the NSO built-in examples) and utilizing Netsim units, we will show a primary surroundings.
This sandbox is read-only, which is supposed for a fast look and easy exams, for instance API calls to sync the units to NSO. If you happen to require an surroundings the place you may get your arms soiled, preserve studying.
NSO Reservable Sandbox
The NSO reservable sandbox is the place the place you need to take a look at your concepts and break issues. You will have now at your disposal three NSO cases of System set up, that are nice for Excessive Availability situations amongst different issues.
The key to having these three cases 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 cases in a deterministic state.
In case you are interested by it, check out the NSO Containers Reservable Sandbox repository the place we revealed the scripts, Dockerfile, and configuration used to construct this container.
CML Topology
However not solely the NSO cases have 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 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 cases have the minimal required configuration to work with them.
This topology is nice whenever you need to use a pipeline that exams 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 also discover a demo mission (due to 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 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 assume we must always add subsequent, what you want or what you’re interested by it.
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