datacenter-as-code-arista-cloudvision

Using Ansible to deploy a Data Center as Code solution when using an Arista Datacenter Managed by Cloudvision

About

Fully deploy and manage an Arista Datacenter Buildout Use ContainerLab to deploy an identical staging environment Use Ansible to:

• Render Configs
• Push up to Arista Cloudvision
• Create Change Control
• Run post test validations

Prepping Server Env

Install Python3.9

• sudo yum install epel-release
• sudo yum install python-pip
• sudo yum install gcc openssl-devel bzip2-devel libffi-devel zlib-devel
• wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.9.6/Python-3.9.6.tgz
• tar -xvf Python-3.9.6.tgz
• cd Python-3.9.6
• ./configure
• sudo make
• sudo make altinstall

Create VENV

• python3.9 -m pip install --user --upgrade pip
• python3.9 -m venv /home/py39venv_daac
• source /home/py39venv_daac/bin/activate

Clone Repo

• cd /home
• git clone ...
• cd datacenter-as-code-arista-cloudvision

Install Deps

• /home/py39venv_daac/bin/python3.9 -m pip install --upgrade pip
• pip install -r requirements.txt
• ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml
• export NETBOX_TOKEN=token
• create vault.yml (ansible-vault create)

Example Runs

• ansible-playbook -i netbox_dynamic_inventory.yml dcac-deploy.yml --ask-vault-pass -e "deploy_hosts=all" --tags generate_config
• post validate run example ansible-playbook -i netbox_dynamic_inventory.yml --ask-vault-pass -e "deploy_hosts=all" post-change-validate.yml