After many months of labor, I’m joyful to share that our NSO reservable sandbox and NSO At all times-On sandbox have acquired a well-deserved improve. The NSO sandboxes are an excellent companion as you go in your automation journey, and once you want a fast surroundings 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 might be able to go.
Now let’s discover the improve we have now 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 at all times obtainable 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 surroundings.
This sandbox is read-only, which is supposed for a fast look and easy assessments, for instance API calls to sync the gadgets to NSO. For those who require an surroundings the place you may get your fingers 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’ve gotten 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.
If you’re interested in 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’ll find now a topology consisting of a number of community gadgets and hosts that mimic two networks, one for growth and one for manufacturing.
You may work together straight with the gadgets utilizing TELNET/SSH or by NSO. The NSO cases have the minimal required configuration to work with them.
This topology is nice once you need to use a pipeline that assessments on growth and deploys on manufacturing.
GitLab
Talking about pipelines, the GitLab occasion contained in the sandbox was additionally upgraded with a more recent GitLab model. You can too discover a demo challenge (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 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 thinking about what you assume we should always add subsequent, what you want or what you might be interested in it.
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