[194933] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Templating/automating configuration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Cook)
Sun Jun 11 19:58:08 2017
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From: Gordon Cook <cook@cookreport.com>
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Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 19:58:04 -0400
To: Andrew Dampf <adampf@gmail.com>,
Sean Donelan <sean@DONELAN.COM>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
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again I understand and agree
the reach of your drowning analysis and understanding is awesome
hi randy bush
oops and hi jp confused of calcutta and chris locke rage boy =20
> On Jun 7, 2017, at 6:17 PM, Andrew Dampf <adampf@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Salt is great for generating configs based on jinja templates, and you =
can
> use napalm in conjunction with salt to push the configs to the device =
on a
> set schedule (typically this is done hourly). If manual changes are =
made to
> the router, salt would override them on the next run, so it's a great =
way
> to make sure configs are consistent.
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> On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 9:25 AM Graham Johnston =
<johnstong@westmancom.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Graham Johnston
>> Network Planner
>> Westman Communications Group
>> 204.717.2829 <(204)%20717-2829>
>> johnstong@westmancom.com<mailto:johnstong@westmancom.com>
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