Building a NetDevOps Pipeline – Part II

Implementing our NetDevOps Pipeline

Marcel Neidinger
Software Solutions Engineer, EMEAR Systems Engineering
7th of December, 2021
Where are we? And where are we going?
Intro to
What is NetDevOps?
NetDevOps

Model-Driven
SSH. Controler-based
Programmabilit How do we change?
automated. automation
y

Version Control What do we push?

Virtual Lab pyATS for

How do we test?
Setup with CML testing

Building a full
advanced pyATS NetDevOps Pipeline How do we build a pipeline?

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 • A DevOps Recap
• From DevOps to NetDevOps
Last week • An overview of our tools
• Designing our NetDevOps pipeline

• Implementing our NetDevOps Pipeline

This week • Pushing Configuration using our new Pipeline

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 • A DevOps Recap
• From DevOps to NetDevOps
Last week • An overview of our tools
• Designing our NetDevOps pipeline

• Implementing our NetDevOps Pipeline

This week • Pushing Configuration using our new Pipeline

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Designing our NetDevOps
pipeline

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Implement a change to our
configuration template
• Write a change to our jinja2
template
• Test generated config locally

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Implement a change to our
configuration template
• Push our changed config template
Push this change to our to git
VCS and trigger build • Use gitlab CI/CD runner to trigger
build after commit
• Pipeline is specified in
.gitlab-ci.yml

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Implement a change to our
configuration template
• Pipeline compiles templates
Push this change to our • Device-specifc context is retrieved
VCS from NetBox
• Config is rendered using context
Pull information from from NetBox
NetBox and build config

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Implement a change to our
configuration template
• Configure new testing lab in CML
Push this change to our (using API)
VCS • Configuration changes are applied
to virtualized lab
Pull information from
NetBox and build config

Run Config changes against

CML

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Implement a change to our
configuration template
• Retrieve testbed from CML API
Push this change to our • pyATS tests are run against the
VCS CML-based simulated
environment using testbed
Pull information from
NetBox and build config

Run Config changes against

CML

Run pyATS tests against

CML

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Implement a change to our
configuration template
• Generate production testbed from
Push this change to our NetBox
VCS • Run pyATS changes against
production testbed
Pull information from
NetBox and build config

Run Config changes against

CML

Run pyATS tests against Deploy changes to

CML production

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An Overview of our
Environment

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 CML

GitLab Runner

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Lab Guide

https://github.com/sQu4rks/netdevops-pipeline-lab/

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