Automation

Inventory-Driven Configuration

Data-Driven Automation

Roles Used

ansible-viptela

Infrastructure agnostic deployment of SD-WAN control plane]
Provision and configure SD-WAN edge
Full template lifecycle (import, export, add, delete, modify, attach, detach)
Full policy lifecycle (import, export, add, delete, modify, activate, deactivate)

ansible-virl

Topology lifecycle (Dynamically generate, launch, clean)
Dynamic inventory

ansible-pyats

Run a command and return structured output
Diff with command output of previous command

Testbed Bring-Up Sequence

Create topology
License VNFs
Configure SD-WAN control plane
Provision SD-WAN edges
Import templates
Attach templates
Import policy
Attach policy

~15min to bring up a fully operational SD-WAN fabric