Cisco CSP Avi Deployment

Requirements

  • You will need to have available memory and storage for both the image, and the service on your Cisco CSP device.

Using QCOW image

Steps

  1. Install the Avi SE role on the host you are executing from.
sudo ansible-galaxy -f avinetworks.avise
  1. Identify how we want to define our hosts. Ansible can accept hosts three ways: command-line, by inventory file, or by dynamic inventory file. We will use an inventory in this case. Ansible by default uses /etc/ansible/hosts as it’s default inventory. Lets add this segment to the bottom of the page.
[csp_devices]
10.120.222.24

Replace the IP with the IP of your CSP host you want to deploy to.

  1. Make sure you are able to SSH into the CSP device. You can logout when done.
ssh user@10.120.222.24
  1. Create the playbook. It should look similar to this
# myplaybook.yml
---
- hosts: csp_devices
  gather_facts: false
  roles:
    - role: avinetworks.avise
      se_deploy_type: csp
      se_csp_user: admin
      se_csp_password: password
      se_master_ctl_ip: 10.128.2.20
      se_master_ctl_username: admin
      se_master_ctl_password: password
      se_csp_qcow_image_file: avi-se.qcow2
      se_csp_mgmt_ip: 10.128.2.20
      se_csp_mgmt_mask: 255.255.255.0
      se_csp_default_gw: 10.128.2.1
      se_csp_service_name: avi-se
      se_csp_disk_size: 10
      se_csp_num_cpu: 2
      se_csp_memory_gb: 4
      se_csp_vnics:
        - nic: "0"
          type: access
          tagged: "false"
          network_name: enp1s0f0
        - nic: 1
          type: passthrough
          passthrough_mode: sriov
          vlan: 200
          network_name: enp7s0f0
        - nic: 2
          type: passthrough
          passthrough_mode: sriov
          vlan: 201
          network_name: enp7s0f1

Note

There are are many possible values which can be found on the roles README file (https://github.com/avinetworks/ansible-role-avise). Each one allows customization of the deployment.

In this playbook we are specifying that this “play” should apply to the “csp_devices” hosts. Anything not required mentioned here CSP Deployment Variables can be omitted from your role parameters. Defaults are also noted on that document.

  1. Execute the playbook.

Note

  • If you are not using an ssh-key you will also need to specify –ask-pass to ansible.
  • If your current user is different you will need to specify -u <username> to ansible.
ansible-playbook myplaybook.yml -u <username> --ask-pass