After many months of labor, I’m joyful to share that our NSO reservable sandbox and NSO All the time-On sandbox have acquired a well-deserved improve. The NSO sandboxes are a terrific companion as you go in your automation journey, and whenever you want a fast surroundings to check your concepts. Moreover, one of the 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’ve ready for you.
NSO All the time-On Sandbox
The NSO All the time-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 straightforward to replace and handle.
A NSO router bundle was put in (this bundle is taken from the NSO built-in examples) and utilizing Netsim gadgets, we will show a primary surroundings.
This sandbox is read-only, which is supposed for a fast look and easy assessments, for instance API calls to sync the gadgets to NSO. In the event you require an surroundings the place you may get your palms soiled, hold studying.
NSO Reservable Sandbox
The NSO reservable sandbox is the place the place you wish to check your concepts and break issues. You will have now at your disposal three NSO cases of System set up, that are nice for Excessive Availability situations amongst different issues.
The key to having these three cases 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 cases in a deterministic state.
If you’re inquisitive about it, check out the NSO Containers Reservable Sandbox repository the place we revealed the scripts, Dockerfile, and configuration used to construct this container.
CML Topology
However not solely the NSO cases have been up to date. The CML topology acquired 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 may work together immediately with the gadgets utilizing TELNET/SSH or by means of NSO. The NSO cases have the minimal required configuration to work with them.
This topology is nice whenever you wish to use a pipeline that assessments on improvement and deploys on manufacturing.
GitLab
Talking about pipelines, the GitLab occasion contained in the sandbox was additionally upgraded with a more moderen GitLab model. It’s also possible to discover a demo challenge (because of the Cisco CSS CX Automation crew) and a GitLab runner prepared for use with pipelines. An instance will come quickly.
What’s Subsequent
We have now many concepts for what we might add and improve to the sandboxes, in addition to including examples that may use their full potential. However I’m extra considering what you suppose we should always add subsequent, what you want or what you might be inquisitive about it.
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