Creating GitLab Project I have started this off by creating a new in GitLab. As I have previously setup my SSH key for GitLab I will just clone the repo and I’ll be able to push changes that way. My lab is up and running GNS3, I just ensure that I can ping and SSH […]
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ASA Management Configuration I have created a lab for an ASA using a single ASA to begin with. It’s a basic walkthrough to setup the ASA and the API. Download and Transfer API Installer to ASA The ASA API can be found here. I am running ASA 9.9, and I have used the file asa-restapi-7161-lfbff-k8.SPA.
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Example In my previous posts in this project, I have explained how to setup NetBox and a couple of the Ansible collection features. In this post, I want to demonstrate what is possible using this approach. I have created multiple Ansible roles with different vars files containing a lot of configuration parameters.The repo for this
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Git Branches The purpose of this NetBox Ansible project is to fix the problems I have encountered with multiple changes being pushed to NetBox by different engineers and then having multiple changes being made to the network devices with very little change control. Now that Ansible is able to make changes to my NetBox test,
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Removing Configuration for Individual Components In the previous post, I demonstrated an example of a custom field. Inside the task, there was a state parameter. This parameter tells NetBox whether to create or delete it.Leaving the state hard set inside the task means all custom tags (as in that example) will either be present, or
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This post follows on from the NetBox setup post, upto the API token setup. SSL Configuration with Nginx In that previous post, SSL was not used. The connection was made insecure and ignored. Here, I will detail the steps to use Nginx as a proxy for the NetBox docker container. Add SAN to SSL Creation
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This post follows on from the NetBox setup post, upto the API token setup. SSL Configuration with Nginx In that previous post, SSL was not used. The connection was made insecure and ignored. Here, I will detail the steps to use Nginx as a proxy for the NetBox docker container. Add SAN to SSL Creation
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