Speakers
Description
At Arista, open-source automation tools like ansible and infrastructure as code workflows have been bread-and-butter in the DC network for a while, now we are bringing these workflows and methodologies into the SP/Core space with our ansible collection "AVD".
AVD stands for Arista Validated Designs and is a 100% open-source project that is built and maintained by over 50 individual contributors from Arista and the customer community. It provides a flexible automation framework for ansible, made to design, stage, provision, maintain, test and document complete production-ready networks running evpn-vxlan and now also evpn-mpls, vpn-ipv4/ipv6 overlays with ldp- and/or segment routing-based underlays. AVD manages every part of the device configuration including underlay/overlay protocols, services, endpoint connectivity, and works in a simple, declarative, config-replace way. AVD can function with or without Aristas CloudVision Portal and is 100% open and free-to-use.
The session will consist of some topics briefly explaining AVD/ansible mechanics and a live demo where different types of services will be deployed using AVD. All the demo repositories will be made available for download after the session.
