This is clone of https://github.com/datacenter/ansible-role-aci-model with added modules & inventory file

Ansible Role: aci-model

A comprehensive Ansible role to model and deploy Cisco ACI fabrics.

This role provides an abstraction layer that is convenient to use. By providing your required configuration (a structured dataset) in your inventory this role will perform the needed actions to ensure that configuration is deployd on your ACI infrastructure.

Using this role you can easily set up demo environment, maintain a lab or use it as the basis for your in-house ACI infrastructure. It can help you understand how ACI works while prototyping and testing. No prior Ansible or ACI knowledge is required to get started.

Requirements

This role requires the aci_rest module and the standard set of ACI modules from Ansible v2.4.

Installation

Install the aci-model role

There are two ways you can test this role:

1. Installing it by cloning the Github repository

   git clone https://github.com/hsabale/ansible-aci
   

2. Install it using the ansible-galaxy command

   ansible-galaxy install datacenter.aci-model
   

Install the aci filter plugin

In order to work with the provided ACI topology, a custom Jinja2 filter (aci_listify) is needed. You need to configure your Ansible to find this Jinja2 filter. There are two ways to do this:

1. Configure Ansible so it looks for the custom aci filter plugin:

   filter_plugin = /home/ansible/ansible-aci/plugins/filter

2. Copy the filter plugin (plugins/filter/aci.py) into your designated filter plugin directory

Because of its general usefulness, we are looking into making this aci_listify filter more generic and make it part of the default Ansible filters.

Using the example playbook

Configure your APIC host and credentials

Look inside the inventory and provide the needed information.

Role variables

The role accepts various variables, including:

• apic_host
• apic_username (defaults to 'admin')
• apic_password
• apic_use_proxy (defaults to false)
• apic_validate_certs (defaults to true)

You can configure these as part of your host variables, or group variables.

Ensure the playbook can find your ansible-aci role

If you cloned it from Github, ensure you cloned it to a directory named ansible-aci. Otherwise the playbook will not find the role with name "ansible-aci".

Running the playbook

This is tested on latest ansible version

ansible-playbook -i myinventory.yml myplaybook.yml -v

License

GPLv3