09-09-2020 10:17 AM
I am looking into Data Center automation, and I have found Salt and Ansible. Both solutions look promising; however, I am not sure which one is supported greater on Cisco Nexus and Catalyst switches.
Does anyone have stories or what product supports Cisco greater.
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09-09-2020 12:44 PM
In my opinion, Ansible is much better and much easier to use with Nexus devices. I cannot comment too much reg catalyst switches, but I belive is similar story there. You have a lot of modules already existing there: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/list_of_network_modules.html#nxos plus you can use roles to simplify the deployments.
You can find an example of how I use ansible in my lab to quickly fire up a topology I need https://github.com/msdaniluk/aci_tenantbooks
Here, each inventory file is the config I need to push to my switches (nexus standalone and aci), and the playbook remains the same, through the use of the roles.
Hope it helps,
Sergiu
09-09-2020 12:44 PM
In my opinion, Ansible is much better and much easier to use with Nexus devices. I cannot comment too much reg catalyst switches, but I belive is similar story there. You have a lot of modules already existing there: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/list_of_network_modules.html#nxos plus you can use roles to simplify the deployments.
You can find an example of how I use ansible in my lab to quickly fire up a topology I need https://github.com/msdaniluk/aci_tenantbooks
Here, each inventory file is the config I need to push to my switches (nexus standalone and aci), and the playbook remains the same, through the use of the roles.
Hope it helps,
Sergiu
09-21-2020 08:25 AM
Thank you again for you help, and detailed posts. I have already installed and just taking small steps with Ansible, so very positive on being able to automate some configurations.
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