After many months of labor, I’m completely happy to share that our NSO reservable sandbox and NSO All the time-On sandbox have obtained a well-deserved improve. The NSO sandboxes are a fantastic companion as you go in your automation journey, and whenever you want a fast setting to check your concepts. Moreover, the perfect factor is, the NSO Sandboxes are free to make use of! Its so simple as making a reservation by hitting the Launch button and you’re able to go.
Now let’s discover the improve now we have ready for you.
NSO All the time-On Sandbox

The NSO All the time-On sandbox has been migrated to the NSO official container. We constructed on prime of the container to make sure the sandbox is all the time accessible and simple to replace and handle.
A NSO router bundle was put in (this bundle is taken from the NSO built-in examples) and utilizing Netsim gadgets, we are able to show a fundamental setting.
This sandbox is read-only, which is supposed for a fast look and easy assessments, for instance API calls to sync the gadgets to NSO. For those who require an setting the place you will get your arms soiled, maintain studying.
NSO Reservable Sandbox

The NSO reservable sandbox is the place the place you need to check your concepts and break issues. You’ve got now at your disposal three NSO situations of System set up, that are nice for Excessive Availability eventualities amongst different issues.
The key to having these three situations is once more the NSO official container, which we used so as to add all of the packages, NEDs and configuration required at constructed time. So, when the sandbox is launched, you should have prepared NSO situations in a deterministic state.
In case you are inquisitive about it, check out the NSO Containers Reservable Sandbox repository the place we revealed the scripts, Dockerfile, and configuration used to construct this container.
CML Topology

However not solely the NSO situations had been up to date. The CML topology obtained additionally a change and fixes. You can see now a topology consisting of a number of community gadgets and hosts that mimic two networks, one for improvement and one for manufacturing.
You possibly can work together immediately with the gadgets utilizing TELNET/SSH or by means of NSO. The NSO situations have the minimal required configuration to work with them.
This topology is nice whenever you need to use a pipeline that assessments on improvement and deploys on manufacturing.
GitLab

Talking about pipelines, the GitLab occasion contained in the sandbox was additionally upgraded with a more moderen GitLab model. You can too discover a demo venture (because of the Cisco CSS CX Automation staff) and a GitLab runner prepared for use with pipelines. An instance will come quickly.
What’s Subsequent
We now have many concepts for what we might add and improve to the sandboxes, in addition to including examples that may use their full potential. However I’m extra desirous about what you suppose we should always add subsequent, what you want or what you’re inquisitive about it.
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