Step 1: Understanding ZTP Libraries on IOS-XR
Understanding the basic ZTP infrastructure of IOS-XR and libraries available for CLI automation
Workshop Instructions
February 2019
Step 2: Playing with the onbox IOS-XR ZTP Bash and Python Library
Play around with the onbox ZTP hooks for bash to familiarize yourself with the available utilities.
Step 3: IOS-XR ZTP Bash and Python hooks (+Ansible!)
Using ZTP hooks in bash and python to automate IOS-XR cli
Step 4: Quick look at Model Driven Telemetry on IOS-XR
Short tutorial on Model Driven Telemetry on IOS-XR - setting up a connection, testing onbox and trying out pipeline
Step 5: Playing with IOS-XR YANG Models
Learn to use Ansible , YDK and Telemetry to solve several provisioning and monitoring tasks. We run some clients from written from scratch to help the reader grasp these new techniques.
Step 6: Quick Look at IOS-XR Service-Layer API
Service-Layer Overview, build process for python bindings, running simple python clients
Step 7: Combining Telemetry with Ansible and Open/R
Combining IOS-XR Telemetry and Service layer APIs to solve a remediation use case