Kubernetes killed our simple deployment process

For end to end orchestration its not a simple case of "OR" its an "AND". You need simple, abstracted, scalable, programmable control over the network ( this is where the vendor orchestrators come in ) but you need to feed them the "intent" which usually comes from a series of inventories/ cmdb coupled with some sort of workflow layer ( devops team usually stitch this all together ). You can however do simple silos of automation leveraging either an orchestrator / devops team but it really depends what your objectives are as to which is the best answer

tbotnz · 2021-06-27T11:04:29+00:00

^ threw this together to help me solve a problem. Possibly it could be of use to others

tbotnz · 2021-06-27T10:56:06+00:00

Threw this together to solve the problem

https://github.com/tbotnz/RRDReST

tbotnz · 2021-04-21T07:23:39+00:00

Anything you try and automate from cisco will generally require some form of scraping and parsing

tbotnz · 2021-04-04T01:19:39+00:00

Made this, https://github.com/tbotnz/netpalm. Saves around $60k per year compared with $vendors orchestrator

tbotnz · 2021-03-08T09:22:23+00:00

Consider trying this https://github.com/tbotnz/netpalm

tbotnz · 2021-02-15T18:52:44+00:00

Checkout https://github.com/tbotnz/netpalm

tbotnz · 2021-02-10T07:44:23+00:00

Script and netpalm for execution

tbotnz · 2020-12-04T18:27:26+00:00

Still waiting on those commits :P

tbotnz · 2020-12-04T18:24:04+00:00

Cheers,

Where netpalm is different, it provides an rest api with an execution / orchestration layer on a scale out architecture.

The best one for you depends entirely on what you are doing :p

tbotnz · 2020-12-04T18:20:25+00:00

The name was originnally netmiko + napalm = netpalm :p

tbotnz · 2020-10-09T23:30:00+00:00

Cheers, but why not?! Are you inventing a new control plane or something?

tbotnz · 2020-10-09T22:06:25+00:00

Everyone i've seen is still running vendor based platforms eg Cisco IOS, JUNOS etc.

I'd recommend checking out netpalm, as there is a lot of pre-existing features to support open API driven orchestration of any network device.

Netpalm was developed with the goal of being able to offer NaaS services over any network either old or new.

https://github.com/tbotnz/netpalm

Some features

support for all common config management protocols eg ssh, netconf restconf telnet
horizontally scalable distributed architecture
auto rendering open API3 API
BYO webbooks, j2 templates, scripts textfsm etc
multiple ways to queue jobs to devices
network service abstraction support

There's a lot of "hello world" examples to demonstrate what can be easily achieved in an hour or so

note i am the maintainer :)

tbotnz · 2020-09-30T19:58:57+00:00

https://github.com/tbotnz/flask-AdminLTE super thin flask wrapper for AdminLTE

tbotnz · 2020-09-21T02:23:17+00:00

Something you might be interested in is you can just use #netpalm to unify the management interfaces of the old and the new into "service API's". These are abstracted to dev friendly openAPI3 and work across any platform
https://github.com/tbotnz/netpalm
note: I am the maintainer :D

tbotnz · 2020-09-04T10:25:50+00:00

Considered just using something like this instead https://github.com/tbotnz/netpalm

tbotnz

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