Thursday, August 20, 2020

Sharing a lab - how to automate?

TLDR below.

Hi, We are in the enviable position of having a lab that replicates our production network, a really good idea. But, sometimes this lab is tied up in TAC cases for extended periods of time, often with low utilization. The problem is that the size of the lab means that it takes at least 2 full days to shift the configs and images for another project. Hardware is mostly Cisco IOS and IOS XE but support for other things like Junos and netconf would be nice. So what is the BCP? I was about to do some ansible and git, but figured someone has already done this and probably better than I would, my google-fu just isn't up to finding it.

TLDR; What is BCP for switching configs and images between projects in a hardware lab?



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