[194867] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Templating/automating configuration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Tue Jun 6 10:11:15 2017
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From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Graham Johnston <johnstong@westmancom.com>
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Graham Johnston 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.
you would probably want to look at napalm for something like this. It
will back-end into ansible or more recently, salt stack.
Nick
