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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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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This is a short post to explain how to setup a GitLab SSH key to securely access your repos. For the full GitLab documentation, please see this article. In GitLab, to create an SSH key, navigate to: User Settings >> SSH Keys Generate an SSH Key I am doing this on a Mac, open a
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DevOps principles are becoming very popular in the networking space. In this post, I will demonstrate how to setup a GitLab pipeline using your own GitLab Runner. By default, GitLab does have public runners that perform the same tasks. Overview In GitLab, a pipeline is a series of stages and jobs defined in a .gitlab-ci.yml
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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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As a Network Engineer, my development workflows are not very disciplined or strong. I mainly use Git as a place to store my completed work, in the form of GitHub. This does work, however, I am missing out on many very useful features that Git version control has to offer and any collaboration with a