After many months of labor, I’m satisfied to percentage that our NSO reservable sandbox and NSO At all times-On sandbox have gained a richly deserved improve. The NSO sandboxes are an ideal spouse as you cross in your automation adventure, and when you wish to have a handy guide a rough atmosphere to check your concepts. Moreover, the most productive factor is, the NSO Sandboxes are unfastened to make use of! Its so simple as creating a reservation by way of hitting the Release button and you’re ready to head.

Now let’s discover the improve now we have ready for you.

NSO At all times-On Sandbox

The NSO At all times-On sandbox has been migrated to the NSO reliable container. We constructed on best of the container to verify the sandbox is all the time to be had and simple to replace and arrange.

A NSO router package deal used to be put in (this package deal is taken from the NSO integrated examples) and the use of Netsim units, we will show a elementary atmosphere.

This sandbox is read-only, which is supposed for a fast glance and easy assessments, for instance API calls to sync the units to NSO. Should you require an atmosphere the place you’ll get your palms grimy, stay studying.

NSO Reservable Sandbox

The NSO reservable sandbox is where the place you need to check your concepts and destroy issues. You may have now at your disposal 3 NSO cases of Gadget set up, which might be nice for Prime Availability eventualities amongst different issues.

The name of the game to having those 3 cases is once more the NSO reliable container, which we used so as to add all of the programs, NEDs and configuration required at constructed time. So, when the sandbox is introduced, you’ll have able NSO cases in a deterministic state.

In case you are interested by it, check out the NSO Boxes Reservable Sandbox repository the place we revealed the scripts, Dockerfile, and configuration used to construct this container.

CML Topology

However now not solely the NSO cases had been up to date. The CML topology gained additionally a metamorphosis and fixes. You’re going to to find now a topology consisting of a number of community units and hosts that mimic two networks, one for building and one for manufacturing.

You’ll be able to engage immediately with the units the use of TELNET/SSH or thru NSO. The NSO cases have the minimal required configuration to paintings with them.

This topology is superb when you need to make use of a pipeline that assessments on building and deploys on manufacturing.

GitLab

Talking about pipelines, the GitLab example throughout the sandbox used to be additionally upgraded with a more recent GitLab model. You’ll be able to additionally discover a demo venture (due to the Cisco CSS CX Automation workforce) and a GitLab runner able for use with pipelines. An instance will come quickly.

What’s Subsequent

We’ve got many concepts for what shall we upload and improve to the sandboxes, in addition to including examples that may use their complete possible. However I’m extra occupied with what you assume we must upload subsequent, what you wish to have or what you’re interested by it.

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