Welcome to NITA 22.8.
NITA is an open source platform for automating the building and testing of complex networks.
For a list of new features, bug fixes and other release details, please look at the NITA Webapp README.
NITA was developed by a small team of Professional Services consultants at Juniper Networks in 2015 and it has been fed and watered by them ever since. In 2020 it was open sourced and made available on GitHub to allow anyone in the industry to use for free and to contribute to if they wished.
As a platform, NITA comprises some of the best Automation tools currently available, such as:
- Ansible, for configuration change management
- Jenkins, for automation and job control
- Robot Framework, for test automation
- Docker, for packaging and easy deployment
In a nutshell, NITA can be used as a toolbox from which you can automate the deployment and testing of very complex networks. It is vendor neutral and so can be used to build and test networks from all of the leading vendors in the market. And because it is a toolbox it can be extended to include any other tool that you may need.
If you want to experiment to see what NITA can do, we currently have 3 example projects that are provided in this repository:
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ChatGPT Integration with Robot and Jenkins.
Ever needed help investigating why an automated test has failed? This example will send failed test case descriptions to ChatGPT and ask for the top suggestions on how to solve them. All of a sudden, you will look like a genius!
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Build and test an EVPN VXLAN data centre using Juniper QFX devices
This includes all of the config that you need to build the data centre fabric and VXLAN overlay along with 14 example Robot tests for the firewalls, switches, BGP leaf and spine devices and end IP connectivity. We show integration with other operational tools for "Day 2 Management", storing inventory in Netbox and having that push changes to the network via the Juniper Paragon Insights product.
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Build and test a Simple DC WAN topology based on IPCLOS and eBGP
This is between 2 example datacentres, with 13 example Robot tests for border leaf routers, DC spines and WAN PE devices, plus BGP and IP connectivity tests.
If you are planning on using NITA or any of the technologies related to NITA then please consider following the Juniper Networks Automation and DevOps Learning Path and taking the Junos Platform and Automation training courses. These will give you the essential knowledge you need to do successful network automation! For more information, please see the link below:
https://learningportal.juniper.net/juniper/user_activity_info.aspx?id=10840
You have landed on the meta repository which links to all of the Juniper Networks NITA submodules on GitHub. Modules can be downloaded independently from these links:
- https://github.com/Juniper/nita-webapp
- https://github.com/Juniper/nita-ansible
- https://github.com/Juniper/nita-jenkins
- https://github.com/Juniper/nita-robot
- https://github.com/Juniper/nita-yaml-to-excel
Please refer to the README in each submodule for more details.
We hope that you enjoy using NITA, and if you do, please give the code a star on GitHub. If you spot anything wrong please raise an Issue and if you want to contribute please raise a Pull Request on the work that you have done. You can find out more details about how to contribute by reading the CONTRIBUTE.md document.
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