After many months of labor, I’m blissful to share that our NSO reservable sandbox and NSO Always-On sandbox have obtained a well-deserved improve. The NSO sandboxes are a fantastic companion as you go in your automation journey, and whenever you want a fast atmosphere to check your concepts. Additionally, 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 might be able to go.
Now let’s discover the improve we now have ready for you.
NSO Always-On Sandbox
The NSO Always-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 simple to replace and handle.
A NSO router package deal was put in (this package deal is taken from the NSO built-in examples) and utilizing Netsim gadgets, we are able to show a fundamental atmosphere.
This sandbox is read-only, which is supposed for a fast look and easy exams, for instance API calls to sync the gadgets to NSO. If you require an atmosphere the place you may get your fingers soiled, maintain studying.
NSO Reservable Sandbox
The NSO reservable sandbox is the place the place you wish to take a look at your concepts and break issues. You have now at your disposal three NSO situations of System set up, that are nice for High Availability situations amongst different issues.
The secret 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.
If you might be 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
But not solely the NSO situations had been up to date. The CML topology obtained additionally a change and fixes. You will discover now a topology consisting of a number of community gadgets and hosts that mimic two networks, one for improvement and one for manufacturing.
You can work together straight with the gadgets utilizing TELNET/SSH or via NSO. The NSO situations have the minimal required configuration to work with them.
This topology is nice whenever you wish to use a pipeline that exams on improvement and deploys on manufacturing.
GitLab
Speaking about pipelines, the GitLab occasion contained in the sandbox was additionally upgraded with a more moderen GitLab model. You may discover a demo undertaking (due to the Cisco CSS CX Automation crew) and a GitLab runner prepared for use with pipelines. An instance will come quickly.
What’s Next
We have many concepts for what we might add and improve to the sandboxes, in addition to including examples that may use their full potential. But I’m extra thinking about what you suppose we should always add subsequent, what you want or what you might be inquisitive about it.
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