You will see amazing things that can be done with Ansible and Salt and in the OpenSource environment. The community out there is amazing... Enjoy!

Project code at https://github.com/aegiacometti/netor

Project documentation at https://readthedocs.org/projects/netor/

This is a very simple compilation of several OpenSource packages, which by using custom scripts help to start the journey of network automation and orchestration, without having to learn from the very beginning how to configure every detail, so i will be using basic standard configurations.

Why? Because I believe that the most important factor in the adoption of any new methodology is to make it easier to start using them.

The scripts won't be nice coding, they are very simple and they work fine, in fact, they are very easy to read. They catch some typing errors but pay attention when you write. Anyway, do not worry, you won't break anything.

The tools that integrate at the moment are:

• Ansible
• Salt
• TinyDB
• Slack

As I move forward I will try to integrate other packages and functionalities.

But, remember, this project is only to help start using Ansible and Salt, in order to see what you can get out of them, and after that, you should start learning about those two projects which are amazing.

https://netor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html#motivation

https://netor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/how_to_install.html#virtualbox-vm

https://netor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/how_to_install.html#linux-bash-installer

https://netor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/how_to_install.html#installation-on-linux

https://netor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/how_to_install.html#installation-on-macos

In order to update with the latest changes, just CD into your netor directory and pull the changes with:

``git pull origin master``

Remember to create your own database and push it to Ansible and Salt, is super easy, follow the guide at How to use section.

All of this software is Open Source, which means that is free and community maintained.

There are a couple of security configuration settings from Ansible and Salt that are not recommended to use, but for learning purposes I let them open.

For Ansible:

File $HOME/.ansible.cfg

host_key_checking = False

File $HOME/.ansible.cfg

host_key_auto_add = True

For Salt:

File /etc/salt/master and /etc/salt/minion

open_mode: True

auto_accept: True

When you restart Salt, give a couple of minutes to synchronise, it will look like not working... wait... and if you want you can check the logs of the daemons with:

sudo tail -f /var/log/salt/*

https://netor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/how_to_use.html#functionalities

https://netor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/how_to_use.html#first-steps

https://netor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usecases.html

• ADD ENCRYPTION TO STORE THE USER ID PASSWORD IN TINYDB
• Redo netorconf.py.
• Auto testing.
• Upload to PyPi and work in adapting de structure.
• Reformat code to make it reusable and with less repeated code.
• Work on bash or python scripts to mirror common Ansible and Salt operations in order to make it easier to use and start learning about them Ansible and Salt.

• Tested on Linux and macOS. Don't support Windows, since Ansible and Salt do not support them.
• Only supports Python 3.
• If you change you netor_home_directory you have to update the PATH environment variable in order to look for the scripts in the correct folder.

These passionate individuals that are always there to help, teach and guide us.

• Python3 for network engineers: with Kirk's online trainings I started this journey of learning Python, with network orientation: Kirk Byers [email protected]

• NAPALM: David Barroso [email protected], Mircea Ulinic [email protected], and Kirk Byers [email protected]

• TinyDB: Markus Siemens [email protected]

• The authors of these great books which helped me a lot:

  • Network Programmability and Automation (Jason Edelman, Scott S. Lowe and Matt Oswalt)
  • Network Automation at Scale (Mircea Ulinic and Seth House)

• Ansible and Salt teams

• OpenSource community in general