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Stockpile Your Network Device Configurations - A Python/Nornir Based Network Device Backup Tool

License: GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0

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stockpiler's Introduction

Hello there 👋

My name is Brett Lykins, and my pronouns are He/Him.

I live in Fairfax, Virginia, USA.

I am the Director of the Automation Architect Team at NetBrain where I support a stellar team of Architects working on large scale Network Automation.

Quick facts about me

One of these is a lie, and you should try to guess which one.

🤓 I am a new nerd who loves knowing how things work and how they're put together
👨🏻‍💻 🎸 I am passionate about technology and music, but after an unsuccessful year at music school I realized I should probably keep technology as a career and music as a hobby
💼 I spent 15 years working in Networking and Security before I began to use Python and Go to make my life easier
✍🏻 🎙 I write and speak about the intersection of these things to help organizations solve IT infrastructure problems

Current projects

These are projects that I am (somewhat) actively working on.

cisshgo: A small, fast, concurrent SSH server to emulate network equipment (for example, Cisco IOS) for testing purposes.
Leanpub Multi Action: A Github Action I built for interacting with the API of Leanpub in your authoring workflows.

Past projects

These are projects I was actively working on in the past, but I've not touched much in recent months (or years 😅).

NAAS: Netmiko as A Service is an API-driven wrapper for the popular Netmiko Python library for interacting with network devices.
Stockpiler: A Nornir-based tool for backing up network device configurations.

Drumroll please

The lie was the first one, if you guessed right here is a cookie: 🍪

I am not a new nerd, but a lifelong nerd.

And here are the receipts.

My first computer:

Teaching my son that This is the Way:

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stockpiler's Issues

Backup Command is not Customizable

Today there is no way to customize the backup command, need to add ability via Nornir Inventory and maybe the CLI Arguments to override a backup command.

Napalm 2.5.0 Requires Netmiko <3

We have to manually edit the Napalm dist Metadata files for now, as until Napalm 3 is released, it requires a Netmiko less than 3.0.0.

This could also be resolved by Nornir not requiring Napalm, but providing it as an "extra" install option. I don't know if that will happen soon, but there was chat about it in the Nornir channel on the NTC Slack instance.

The current workaround is documented in the Readme, this issue is for tracking when we can remove that workaround.

Make `wr mem` or equivalent optional

Today, when Stockpiler backs up a network device, it saves the running configuration to startup (or whatever is the equivalent on a given platform).

We need to make this behavior optional.

Add F5 Backup Support

In order to backup F5's we need the following:

Strategy for handling UCS files and other binaries in Git. Options include Git Annex or Git LFS.
Write https://github.com/lykinsbd/stockpiler/blob/master/stockpiler/tasks/stockpile/stockpile_f5.py
- Logic will try the iControl REST API first, then fall back to Netmiko and SSH transport

Add Support for Push to Offbox Git

Today we're simply backing up into a local git repository.

We need to add support to also optionally push to a remote git repository if desired or configured.

F5 iControl REST SDK v1.3.14 is not on PyPi

We are unable to publish version 1.0.0 of Stockpiler to PyPi because of the current workaround to this issue:

F5Networks/f5-icontrol-rest-python#174

Result if I try and upload it with current workaround in place:

HTTPError: 400 Client Error: Invalid value for requires_dist. Error: Can't have direct dependency: 'f5-icontrol-rest @ git+https://github.com/F5Networks/[email protected]#egg=v1.3.14' for url: https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/

Once v1.3.14 of the F5 iControl Rest client is uploaded to PyPi, we can edit setup.cfg to remove the direct link, and publish Stockpiler again.