netclab

Networks operated from Kubernetes and Crossplane, from one tunnel to a whole fabric's design. Lab twins to try each change on first.

Latest

• Post-quantum IPsec on IOS XE, from Kubernetes
  An IPsec tunnel between Cisco routers with a post-quantum preshared key mixed into IKEv2, as Kubernetes objects kept on the routers by reconcile. The exercise is from Cisco's IPsec blog series.
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• Your AVD fabric, live in Kubernetes
  Keep the AVD model you have and the containerlab you run, and operate the model from Kubernetes.
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AVD in Kubernetes

• netadopt
  Reads an AVD repository, reports what it holds, and writes it as Kubernetes objects, and a lab of its switches.
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• function-avd
  Runs AVD in Kubernetes: builds each switch's configuration from those objects, pushes it over eAPI, and pushes it again after a change by hand.
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Run a lab

• netclab-chart
  Helm chart that runs routers, hosts and traffic generators as pods (cEOS, SR Linux, FRR, ixia-c), cabled together with Multus. You describe a topology; it becomes a running network. netclab, on PyPI, brings the cluster and the lab up in one command.
  Helm repository PyPI Source

Configure devices

• netclab-xp
  Crossplane packages that turn router configuration into Kubernetes resources: configuration-eos for Arista EOS, from a single interface up to a whole router, over RESTCONF, JSON-RPC or eAPI, and configuration-iosxe for Cisco IOS XE over RESTCONF.
  Documentation Source
• function-eapi
  Turns EOS CLI configuration into resources applied to devices over JSON-RPC.
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Reading

• Slides
  Two decks: netclab-xp's resources, one setting and one router at a time, and an AVD fabric live in Kubernetes.
  Slides