Overview

The current GAP is simple and its fundamental parts are:

• An Ansible inventory stored in Git
• A set of Ansible playbooks stored in Git
• An Ansible master instance to execute these playbooks
• A Jenkins instance to orchestrate Ansible

An overview of the platform is depicted in the following picture:

Functionalities

Currently, GAP is capable of the following capabilities:

• Provisioning of nodes and IP trunks:
• Deployment of base configuration on a new router
• Deployment of a new trunk with metric=9000
• Insertion of a new router in the iBGP mesh
• Periodic checks of configuration:
• Verification of single stanza of configuration
• Others:
• Upgrade of Junos on single and dual routing engines Juniper routers