Kipper is the code name for the network automation project at Dyn.
Kipper is a combination of several tools:
- Github
- Ansible
- Jenkins
- etc.
This demo focuses on the Ansible part of Kipper, and the goal is to share some of the most important building blocks for achieving the same results in other networks.
Kipper uses Ansible as the configuration management tool.
Some parts of Ansible need to be compiled, so you'll need the developer tools that come with Xcode.
You may want to get the latest Xcode for here:
https://developer.apple.com/xcode/
Install Ansible from source (recommended):
$ git clone git://github.com/ansible/ansible.git
$ cd ansible/
$ git submodule update --init --recursive
$ echo "source ~/ansible/hacking/env-setup" >> ~/.bash_profile
The last command assumes that your shell is bash. Adjust to your environment as needed.
Install the Junos Netconf library for Python.
If you don't have pip installed, you'll have to do:
sudo easy_install pip
Then:
$ sudo pip install git+https://github.com/Juniper/py-junos-eznc.git
Install the Junos Stdlib Module for Ansible:
$ cd
$ git clone https://github.com/Juniper/ansible-junos-stdlib.git
$ cd ansible-junos-stdlib
$ echo "export ANSIBLE_LIBRARY=~/ansible-junos-stdlib/library" >> ~/.bash_profile
Load the environment variables
$ source ~/.bash_profile
You can test this demo using JunOS virtual machines, such as the Virtual SRX (vSRX). You can find some instructions at:
Generate SSH keys for the "oper" and "admin" users and make sure to update the public keys in the common role variables.
make build
make test
make deploy
Carlos Vicente cvicente@dyn.com
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The network and automation teams at Dyn, who contributed many ideas present in this work
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Juniper Networks (and Jeremy Schulman) for writing and sharing the libraries on which this work is based.