topic Unable to pull down VIRL topologies from GitHub in DevNet Sandbox

Unable to pull down VIRL topologies from GitHub

smchivers — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 14:06:57 GMT

First time I have tried this but I believe I should be able to ‘virl up’ one of the topologies listed in the ‘virl search’ output using For example ‘virl up virlflies/genie_learning_lab’.

This fails with a repo not found error.

I have tried this on both the devbox and my local host. I am guessing that the recent Cisco policy change to not allow internet access to the VPN host includes access to the github resource?

Re: Unable to pull down VIRL topologies from GitHub

bigevilbeard — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:17:57 GMT

I think that should be baked in, and you don't have to down/clone this. Can you see this in the on the devbox.

virl search

Re: Unable to pull down VIRL topologies from GitHub

smchivers — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:25:21 GMT

There appears to be a /virlfiles directory on the devbox with a few folders containing topology files. This was the only way I could build a topology in sanbox using the devbox. example:

cd ./virlfiles/2-ios-router
up

This create a default environment from the topology.virl file in the 2-ios-router directory and 'UP's the topology.

Re: Unable to pull down VIRL topologies from GitHub

bigevilbeard — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 09:28:02 GMT

If you are using the mutli-ios sandbox you can clone GitHub repo's which inc a topology.virl file. For example, https://developer.cisco.com/codeexchange/github/repo/bigevilbeard/challenges_with-network_automation

If you are building your own, i build these in the UI and get all the grunt work done there, save the file as a topology.virl and use GitHub and virlutils to add all the base configs etc.. for reuse.

Hope this helps.