Notes:

Credit to benmaddison whos work inspired me to do this https://github.com/benmaddison/mk-vr-playground/

vrnetlab now includes my patch to get SSH working on vEOS: vrnetlab/vrnetlab#166

VxLan Lab:

• Features 2 Spine switches, 2 Leaf switches, 2 End Hosts
• End Hosts are just vEOS devices
• End Host1 connected to Leaf1
• End Host2 connected to Leaf2
• VxLAN didn't work in 4.20.1F, used 4.20.7M - also Layer3 interfaces have to have a high MTU set

Uses Ansible 2.5 and vrnetlab docker containers to spin up a lab environment running BGP with Cisco IOSXE and Arista EOS Devices. The playbook uses the new network_cli connection methods to connect to the devices.

Running playbook examples:

ansible-playbook -i inventory/basic_lab/hosts site.yml

ansible-playbook -i inventory/leaf_spine_basic/hosts site.yml