Articles
Technical writing on network automation, originally published on Medium.
- Ansible vs. NSO: Unifying Both Under One CI/CD Pipeline
Bringing the Ansible and Cisco NSO automation paths together under a single GitLab CI/CD pipeline with pyATS validation and one source of truth.
· CI/CD· GitLab· pyATS· Cisco NSO· Ansible - Automating the VXLAN EVPN Fabric with Cisco NSO and Python
Building a Cisco NSO service package and Python logic to provision the same VXLAN EVPN fabric with transactional rollback.
· VXLAN· EVPN· Cisco NSO· Python - Automating the VXLAN EVPN Fabric with Ansible
Turning the hand-built VXLAN EVPN fabric into Ansible roles and playbooks, with idempotent runs against NX-OS.
· VXLAN· EVPN· Ansible· Automation - Building a VXLAN EVPN Fabric on NX-OS 9000v
A hand-built leaf-spine EVPN-VXLAN fabric on Cisco NX-OS 9000v, used as the manual baseline for a later automation series.
· VXLAN· EVPN· NX-OS· Data Center