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Uncover the newest upgrades within the NSO Sandboxes


After many months of labor, I’m pleased to share that our NSO reservable sandbox and NSO All the time-On sandbox have acquired a well-deserved improve. The NSO sandboxes are an excellent companion as you go in your automation journey, and if you want a fast atmosphere to check your concepts. Moreover, the perfect 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 have now 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 high of the container to make sure the sandbox is at all times out there 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 atmosphere.

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 case you require an atmosphere the place you may get your fingers soiled, maintain studying.

NSO Reservable Sandbox

The NSO reservable sandbox is the place the place you wish to take a look at your concepts and break issues. You’ve gotten now at your disposal three NSO situations of System set up, that are nice for Excessive Availability eventualities amongst different issues.

The key to having these three situations 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’ll have prepared NSO situations in a deterministic state.

In case you are 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 situations had been up to date. The CML topology acquired additionally a change and fixes. You will see now a topology consisting of a number of community gadgets and hosts that mimic two networks, one for growth and one for manufacturing.

You’ll be able to work together immediately with the gadgets utilizing TELNET/SSH or by way of NSO. The NSO situations have the minimal required configuration to work with them.

This topology is nice if you wish to use a pipeline that assessments on growth and deploys on manufacturing.

GitLab

Talking about pipelines, the GitLab occasion contained in the sandbox was additionally upgraded with a more moderen GitLab model. You may also discover a demo venture (due to the Cisco CSS CX Automation workforce) and a GitLab runner prepared for use with pipelines. An instance will come quickly.

What’s Subsequent

Now we have many concepts for what we may add and improve to the sandboxes, in addition to including examples that may use their full potential. However I’m extra involved in what you assume we should always add subsequent, what you want or what you might be inquisitive about it.

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Wish to get extra content material about NSO? Attain out to me on LinkedIn. I’m pleased to listen to your concepts.

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