This is a post that takes the previous Nexus EVPN VXLAN Fabric and the Nexus EVPN VXLAN Fabric using Ansible posts, and uses the GitLab pipeline to perform the automation. In a previous post, I have walked through the setting up GitLab for CI/CD pipelines with external runners. For this GitLab project, I am using […]
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This is a post that takes the previous Nexus EVPN VXLAN Fabric post, and uses Ansible to build the topology. This is based off this Cisco developer document. General Info This project is located in my GitLab. In order to run the Ansible playbook navigate to the nexus_evpn, and run ansible-playbook -i inventory/DC_inv.ini site.yml Setup
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In this post, I will outline the configuration for a VXLAN fabric using BGP EVPN and OSPF as the underlay. This is similar to my previous Arista project and VXLAN project. The topology of this post will be four switches and six clients. For the configuration, I will go section by section for each device
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These are the base configs I have used in my lab for all the Nexus switches. It’s enough for me to get SSH access and to use the API. Spine1 Spine2 Leaf1 Leaf2
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If you already have ACI running and then want to move to a DevOps approach and bring that configuration into Terraform, how can that be performed? The ACI Terraform provider supports importing configuration. All that is required is the resource and name of that resource. In the following example, I will use the Cisco ACI
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In my previous ACI automation post, I used Terraform and the credentials were in plain text inside the main.tf file. I have updated this, so the credentials are stored in GitLab environment variables, which is a much more secure method. The process of the credentials from GitLab to Terraform are as follows; Create Environment Variables
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In a previous post, I have created a sample of FortiGate config with Terraform. This was all performed locally from a Windows machine. While this is good in a lab environment, the major problem with it is that the management doesn’t scale. If there is more than a single network engineer, they need to share
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After setting up the GitLab CI/CI pipeline, the next step I wanted to take is to use Terraform to make changes to AWS infrastructure. There are several steps to configure a GitLab pipeline for Terraform. This example is for a new project with nothing yet configured in AWS yet. Create a New Project in GitLab
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