Cisco Model-Driven Devops Ansible Collection

This Ansible Collection is an implementation of Model-Driven DevOps and includes the following roles:

• oc
• check
• validate
• common
• netbox
• nso

Dependencies

Environment Variables

If using NetBox:

• NETBOX_API
• NETBOX_TOKEN

To use an external NSO (i.e. not deployed in CML):

• NSO_URL Protocol, FQDN or IP address and port (e.g. http://192.168.1.100:8080)
• NSO_USERNAME
• NSO_PASSWORD

Playbooks

Status Check Operations

ciscops.mdd.run_check_list

- Run the list of checks defined in `check_list`

Required Data Structures

• check_list: List of checks to run
• check_table: Dictionary defining the checks

Note: See default values in roles/check/defaults/main.yml

ciscops.mdd.update_netbox_from_nso

- Update Netbox from NSO

Example:

ansible-playbook ciscops.mdd.update_netbox_from_nso

ciscops.mdd.netbox_init

- Initialize Netbox

Example:

ansible-playbook ciscops.mdd.netbox_init

Note: Netbox modules to not work with Ansible <4, so the entire path will need to be specified when running with Ansible <3

ciscops.mdd.netbox_init

• Initialize Netbox

ansible-playbook ciscops.mdd.netbox_init

ciscops.mdd.cml_update_netbox

• Add hosts from CML into netbox

Inventory Source: CML

Example:

ansible-playbook cml_update_netbox

ciscops.mdd.nso_update_netbox

• Update Netbox devices from NSO

Example:

ansible-playbook nso_update_netbox

ciscops.mdd.nso_init

• Initialize NSO

Example:

ansible-playbook nso_init

ciscops.mdd.nso_update_devices

• Update NSO devices from inventory source

Example:

ansible-playbook nso_update_devices