After many months of labor, I’m completely happy to share that our NSO reservable sandbox and NSO All the time-On sandbox have obtained a well-deserved improve. The NSO sandboxes are an awesome companion as you go in your automation journey, and if you want a fast surroundings to check your concepts. Moreover, the very 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’re able to go.
Now let’s discover the improve we now have ready for you.
NSO All the time-On Sandbox
The NSO All the time-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 accessible and straightforward to replace and handle.
A NSO router bundle was put in (this bundle is taken from the NSO built-in examples) and utilizing Netsim units, we will show a fundamental surroundings.
This sandbox is read-only, which is supposed for a fast look and easy exams, for instance API calls to sync the units to NSO. In case you require an surroundings the place you will 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 might have now at your disposal three NSO situations of System set up, that are nice for Excessive Availability eventualities amongst different issues.
The key to having these three situations 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 situations in a deterministic state.
In case you are inquisitive about it, check out the NSO Containers Reservable Sandbox repository the place we printed the scripts, Dockerfile, and configuration used to construct this container.
CML Topology
However not solely the NSO situations have been up to date. The CML topology obtained additionally a change and fixes. You can see now a topology consisting of a number of community units and hosts that mimic two networks, one for growth and one for manufacturing.
You’ll be able to work together instantly with the units utilizing TELNET/SSH or by way of NSO. The NSO situations have the minimal required configuration to work with them.
This topology is nice if you need to use a pipeline that exams on growth and deploys on manufacturing.
GitLab
Talking about pipelines, the GitLab occasion contained in the sandbox was additionally upgraded with a more moderen GitLab model. You can too discover a demo undertaking (because of the Cisco CSS CX Automation workforce) and a GitLab runner prepared for use with pipelines. An instance will come quickly.
What’s Subsequent
We’ve got many concepts for what we might add and improve to the sandboxes, in addition to including examples that may use their full potential. However I’m extra fascinated with what you assume we should always add subsequent, what you want or what you’re inquisitive about it.
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