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Cisco VXLAN-EVPN Ansible Playbooks

Disclaimer

This project is based on https://github.com/Cat9kEVPN/cat9k-evpn-ansible but with the goal to provide a much simpler abstraction for the end user

Prerequisites

To run those ansibles playbook, you will require:

Hardware:

  • A linux server (Fedora, Ubuntu, RedHat, etc)
  • Supported hardware:
    • Catalayst 9000 (Tested with 9300 and 9500 series)
      • network-advantage license
      • IOS-XE version >= 17.03 for leafs or >= 17.11 for the spines ( required by the dynamic peering configuration )

Network-Expertise:

  • Basic network knowledge (network design, bring up of cat9k switches)
  • Basic understanding of YAML
  • Basic understanding of Python
  • Basic linux command line use

General description

ansible

Installation

It is recommended to run the project in the virtual environment.

Below you can find installation steps for Linux (ubuntu) server

  • Install python3
    sudo apt install python3 python3.10-venv
  • Create the python virtual environment. In this example the virtual environment will be created in the folder virtual-env/ansible
    python3 -m venv ansible

More details could be found here

  • Activate virtual environment.
    source ansible/bin/activate
  • Clone the repository
    git clone https://github.com/anubisg1/cisco-vxlan-evpn-ansible.git
  • Go to project directory
    cd cisco-vxlan-evpn-ansible
  • Install pip if it is not already installed
    sudo apt install pip
  • Install all necessary packages
    pip install -r requirements.txt
  • Next step ...
    cd cat9k-playbooks
    ansible-playbook -i ../inventory playbook_xxx.yaml
    ansible-playbook -i ../inventory -e ansible_ssh_pass=xxx playbook_xxx.yaml