Automate NSO Installation Using Ansible

[Bassem Abd Elzaher]

Good Days,

Recently I installed NSO in few customers environments and I thought it would be helpful to automate the installation procedures instead of repeating it each time or PoC.

So I wrote Ansible module that take three inputs from user and take care of the rest

Variable Name	Usage
ncs_package_name	This is the name of NSO downloaded package (example: nso-4.4.linux.x86_64)
ncs_package_location	Where you uploaded this package in linux server(example: /root/)
ncs_run_location	The location of instantiated project from NSO installation (example: ncs-run or access_project)

Once you run the module (locally or via remote host), it will prepare the linux machine first with some settings (like disable selinux and firewalld services, install correct java version, update the cache..etc) then customize the bash profile with ncsrc file and finally install and run the NSO at the end

to run it, simply execute the below command on host that has ansible package installed

#ansible-playbook nso_demo.yml

if you need to run it in verbose mode to see the exact running commands, then add few "vvv" to the command

#ansible-playbook nso_demo.yml -vvv

Sample Output

Script Output

NSO Started

Please share any other ideas to automate the installation or NSO configuration.

Thank You

Regards

Bassim Aly

nso_demo.yml.zip

[ian.scheidler1]

Does this perform a local or system install of NSO?

Judging by the variable "ncs_run_location" it is a local install, right?

Sorry, no time to test, so I thought I'd be quicker to just ask. Thx.

[Bassem Abd Elzaher]

Hello Ian,

Actually it's a local install, I'm planning to add system install tag to ansible playbook

[sunge]

Hey, very cool.

As for other ideas, have you checked out the "nct" tool-set?

[rogaglia]

Hi Bassim,

Good initiative, do you think you could upload the module to the github repository in the forum?

Roque

[Bassem Abd Elzaher]

I didnt try it yet, but for sure I will work and try to orchestrate it. Thank You for your feedback!

[Bassem Abd Elzaher]

Sure Roque, I will create a pull request to github repo.

[jvikman]

Do you have a link for the repo?

[sbarvick]

I'm actually working through the process to contribute some playbooks to DevNet.  In the meantime, this is the link:  GitHub - sbarvick-dd/nso-ansible-ops: A collection of Ansible playbooks for managing Cisco NSO installations