Interacting with a network device

As already mentioned at the start of the chapter, we are going to use Vagrant to launch a network device, and then run a playbook to apply a basic configuration. The device we will be launching is a VyOS. While the device will be a full VyOS installation, we will be applying only a test configuration to give you an idea of how the modules we mentioned in the previous section can be used.

Note

There is a full copy of this playbook in the GitHub repository that accompanies this title.

Launching the network device

To do this, we are going to use a VyOS Vagrant box. If you are following along, we first need to create a folder called vyos. This will hold our playbook and Vagrantfile. To create the folder structure and blank files needed for the playbook, run the following commands:

$ mkdir vyos vyos/group_vars vyos/roles
$ ansible-galaxy init vyos/roles/vyos-firewall
$ touch vyos/Vagrantfile
$ touch vyos/production
$ touch vyos/site.yml
$ touch vyos/group_vars/common...