AVD Arista Validated Design for Arista Test Drive

About

This repository is configured to run arista.cvp & arista.avd ansible collections against the Arista Test Drive (ATD) Topology.

To access an Arista Test Drive topology, please contact your Arista representative.

Lab Topology

The DC1 portion of the Level 5 lab topology consists of 3 Spines, 6 Leafs and 2 Hosts.

ATD Topology Device List

Device	IP Address
spine1-DC1	192.168.0.11
spine2-DC1	192.168.0.12
spine3-DC1	192.168.0.13
leaf1-DC1	192.168.0.21
leaf2-DC1	192.168.0.22
leaf3-DC1	192.168.0.23
leaf4-DC1	192.168.0.24

Setup Your Environment

Make sure to reset your lab to the default configlet assignments (BASE configlets and ATD-INFRA). You can use the ATD-Reset-Level5 repo to do this: https://github.com/tonybourkesdnpros/ATD-Reset-Level5

(For Level5 ATD Linux Server)

> ansible-galaxy collection install arista.cvp --force

Clone this Repository

Make sure you're in the persist directory, then clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/tonybourkesdnpros/AVD-Level5

Work with Playbooks

Add Lab Credentials

edit credentials in vscode: atd-inventory/inventory.yml

(put your lab password in for ansible_password and ansible_ssh_pass)

Clean up environment

ansible-playbook playbooks/CVP-lab-reset.yml

Run Playbook to Generate Configuration files

We can make use of tags in AVD to execute a portion of the playbook, in this case generating all the configuration.

ansible-playbook playbooks/atd-fabric-deploy.yml --tags=generate

View the generated configuration files:

ls atd-inventory/intended/configs

Look at leaf1-DC1.cfg, and note the loopback0 IP address. It should be in the 192.0.200.0/24 address space (as a /32).

You can try changing the loopback_ipv4_pool parameter in atd-inventory/group_vars/ATD_FABRIC.yml from 192.0.200.0/24 to 192.198.200.0/24

loopback_ipv4_pool: 192.168.200.0/24

Rerun the configuration generation

ansible-playbook playbooks/atd-fabric-deploy.yml --tags=build

This will re-create the configuration files. Note that loopback0 has changed to the 192.198.200.0/24 address space.

Build the Fabric

Run the fabric deploy playbook

ansible-playbook playbooks/atd-fabric-deploy.yml 

This will take about 2-3 minutes, and will create a series of tasks in CloudVision. When the playbook is complete, create a change control from these tasks and execute it (you may see some errors, that's OK).

Verify the fabric is configured show ip bgp summary show bgp evpn summary

The BGP sessions may not be in Established, but that's OK. The key is the configuration was pushed from AVD.

Run the other playbooks

Run audit playbook to validate Fabric states

ansible-playbook playbooks/atd-validate-states.yml

Execute EOS_SNAPSHOT role to collect show commands

ansible-playbook playbooks/atd-snapshot.yml

License

Project is published under Apache License.