Automate the management of your Nexus-based Data Center Infrastructure leveraging Open Source Tools. This repository contains an Ansible role named the nexus_manage_restconf which validates, configures and tests the configurations deployed on you Nexus switches.
The code uses Jinja2 Templates to dynamically render JSON files compliant with the NX-OS OpenConfig YANG Model. The JSON payloads are afterwards sent via HTTPS to the Nexus RESTCONF API. The code also uses Jinja2 Templates to dynamically render Robot Framework test suites which verify the operational status of the different protocols configured on the Nexus switches.
The current state of the project only allows you configure the protocols required to spin up a VXLAN-EVPN Fabric, however its modular architecture allows you to easily extend support to other protocols.
The Ansible Playbooks can be executed directly on a shell or can be executed by any CI/CD tool. This repository also contains a simple example of a Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline.
This projects aims to implement GitOps practices on Nexus Switches by declaring the switch configuration as Code.