gmuloc / atd-avd

Arista Test Drive + Ansible AVD Examples

AVD Arista Validated Design for Arista Test Drive

About

This repository is configured to run arista.cvp & arista.avd ansible collections against the Arista Test Drive (ATD) Topology.

To access an Arista Test Drive topology, please contact your Arista representative.

Lab Topology

The ATD Lab topology consists of 2 Spines, 4 Leafs and 2 Hosts, as shown below.

ATD Topology Device List

Device	IP Address
spine1	192.168.0.10
spine2	192.168.0.11
leaf1	192.168.0.12
leaf2	192.168.0.13
leaf3	192.168.0.14
leaf4	192.168.0.15
host1	192.168.0.16
host2	192.168.0.17

Current repository is built with cEOS management interface (Management0). If you run a vEOS topology, please update mgmt_interface field to Management1 in inventory

Getting Started

Connect to your ATD Lab environment.

• If you need an ATD Lab instance, please contact your local account team.
• Once connected to the ATD Lab instance, select the Programmability IDE.
• This container is built with all the necessary requirements and Python modules to run AVD playbooks.

1. Setup Git user and email and the ATD lab environment.

   • Open a terminal window in VS Code View -> Terminal from the menu, and run the following commands:

   # Setup your git global config (optional)
   $ git config --global user.email "[e-mail]"
   git config --global user.name "Your Name"
   
   # Run Script to setup environment
   $ curl -fsSL https://get.avd.sh/atd/install.sh | sh

2. Update Inventory with Lab Credentials

   • Open file in VS Code: atd-avd/atd-inventory/inventory.yml

   • Set credentials in the inventory.yml to the credentials provided on the Arista Test Drive landing page.

3. Run the Playbook to Prepare CloudVision for AVD

   • Execute the following commands:

   # Change to ATD-AVD directory
   $ cd labfiles/arista-ansible/atd-avd
   
   # Run Playbook to Prepare CloudVision for AVD
   $ ansible-playbook playbooks/atd-prepare-lab.yml

• Verify that tasks in CloudVision have been executed automatically.

4. Run playbook to deploy AVD setup

   • Execute the following commands:

   # Run Playbook to Deploy AVD Setup
   $ ansible-playbook playbooks/atd-fabric-deploy.yml

   • Execute pending tasks in CloudVision Portal manually.

5. Run validation and snapshot playbooks.

   • Execute the following commands:

   # Run audit playbook to validate Fabric states
   $ ansible-playbook playbooks/atd-validate-states.yml
   
   # Execute EOS_SNAPSHOT role to collect show commands
   $ ansible-playbook playbooks/atd-snapshot.yml

   • Review generated output.

Step by Step walkthrough

A complete step-by-step guide is available

Resources

• Arista Ansible AVD Collection
• Arista Cloudvision Collection
• Arista AVD public documentation

License

This Project is published under Apache License.