This is a more complex set of plays, designed to configure multiple elements on multiple devices.
For a simple leaf-spine network of two leafs and one spine, it will do the following:
- Set device hostnames
- Set NTP and timezone
- Configure LLDP to advertise the management IP
- Enable the inter-switch links, and assign descriptions and IP Addresses
- Configure a Port-Channel on each Leaf switch
- Create VLANs and assign ports
- Configure BGP peering between devices.
This is all configured using group_vars and host_vars.
To run this playbook, configure your hosts, group_vars and host_vars as required, then run
ansible-playbook site.yml
There is also a set of "Check" plays that will:
- Check that NTP is synchronized
- Check that LLDP shows devices cabled as expected
- Grab the
show ip bgp summaryoutput from each device, and publish it.
To run this, use ansible-playbook check.yml. Note that it uses values from host_vars to specify which LLDP neighbors to look for.