As configured in the previous post, the vEdge routers have been manually configured in a traditional way. This is fine, but it means that the vManage server cannot manage the configuration. In order to use SD-WAN as intended, the configuration should be created on the vManage. To do this, templates are used. The first step […]
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This post is to briefly go over the adding of a new vEdge to a GNS3 Lab. I have created a lab as shown in the screenshot below using the guide from this website. I am not going to repeat all of it, as it is very detailed and very clear already.However, I have changed
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As part of the ASA API Terraform Project, in this post I will be demonstrating the creation of ACLs using objects, object groups and standard IP addressing. Lab I’m going to set up a simple ASA lab using the previous post from the project. Creating Objects with Terraform I have created a network object and
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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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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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Cisco ACI Supports several methods of automation or infrastructure as code. For this example, I will be using Terraform to give examples of setting up different fabric policies using the Cisco ACI lab. Setup To get this setup, I have several things to do Lab Once the lab has been setup and VPN connected to
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