The ansible-nso project provides an Ansible collection for managing and automating your Cisco NSO environment. It consists of a set of modules and roles for performing tasks in NSO.
This collection has been tested and supports version 6.2 and 6.3 of NSO.
*Note: This collection is not compatible with versions of Ansible before v2.16.
Ansible v2.16.2 or newer
Ansible must be installed
sudo pip install ansible
Install the collection
ansible-galaxy collection install cisco.nso
Once the collection is installed, you can use it in a playbook by specifying the full namespace path to the module, plugin and/or role.
- hosts: nso
gather_facts: no
tasks:
- name: CREATE DEVICE IN NSO
cisco.nso.nso_config:
url: https://10.10.20.49/jsonrpc
username: developer
password: C1sco12345
data:
tailf-ncs:devices:
device:
- address: 10.10.20.175
description: CONFIGURED BY ANSIBLE!
name: dist-rtr01
authgroup: "labadmin"
device-type:
cli:
ned-id: "cisco-ios-cli-6.105"
port: "22"
state:
admin-state: "unlocked"Getting the latest/nightly collection build
Clone the ansible-nso repository.
git clone https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/ansible-nso.git
Go to the ansible-nso directory
cd ansible-nso
Pull the latest master on your NSO
git pull origin master
Build and Install a collection from source
ansible-galaxy collection build --force
ansible-galaxy collection install cisco-nso-* --force
- Ansible Using collections for more details.
Ongoing development efforts and contributions to this collection are tracked as issues in this repository.
We welcome community contributions to this collection. If you find problems, need an enhancement or need a new module, please open an issue or create a PR against the Cisco NSO collection repository.