[194934] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Templating/automating configuration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Cook)
Sun Jun 11 20:23:41 2017
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From: Gordon Cook <cook@cookreport.com>
In-Reply-To: <B9F976C5-EE8C-4BE3-A655-778ABC036F01@cookreport.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 20:23:38 -0400
To: Andrew Dampf <adampf@gmail.com>, Sean Donelan <sean@DONELAN.COM>,
Steve Goldstein <name.withheld@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
agree
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> On Jun 11, 2017, at 7:58 PM, Gordon Cook <cook@cookreport.com> wrote:
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> again I understand and agree
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>> 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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