Hi, Here are some extra pointers:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=C7pkab8n7ys https://www.nanog.org/sites/default/files/dosdontsnetworkautomation.pdf https://github.com/coloclue/kees Kind regards, Job On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 at 13:49, Brian Knight <[email protected]> wrote: > Because we had different sources of truth which were written in-house, we > wound up rolling our own template engine in Python. It took about 3 weeks > to write the engine and adapt existing templates. Given a circuit ID, it > generates the full config for copy and paste into a terminal session. It > also hooks into a configuration parser tool, written in-house, that tracks > configured interfaces, so it is easy to see whether the template would > overwrite an existing interface. > > > > I used the Jinja2 template engine, along with pyodbc/unixODBC/FreeTDS for > access to a Microsoft SQL backend. > > > > The keys for us are: > > > > * extracting information from a source of truth > > * validating the information for correctness > > * making sure you don't overwrite existing config > > * outputting the right templates for the circuit features > > > > It made more sense to write a tool than it did to try to adapt something > for our environment. > > > > If I had a free hand and unlimited budget, I would find a single app that > functions as a source of truth for all circuits and products, which > includes a templating engine that hooks in easily. > > > > -Brian > > > > > > ---- On Tue, 06 Jun 2017 08:22:59 -0500 Graham Johnston & > lt;[email protected]> wrote ---- > > > > > > > > > > > > Short of complete SDN, for those of you that have some degree of > configuration templating and/or automation tools what is it that you run? > I'm envisioning some sort of tool that let's me define template snippets of > configuration and aids in their deployment to devices. I'm okay doing the > heaving lifting in defining everything, I'm just looking for the tool that > stitches it together and hopefully makes things a little less error prone > for those who aren't as adept. > > > > Graham Johnston > > Network Planner > > Westman Communications Group > > 204.717.2829 > > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > > > > >
