Working with the Ansible Local Provisioner for Vagrant Boxes

I’ve been working with vagrant boxes for quite awhile now. I usually use them for development environments or creating lab environments for testing various network functions (i.e. BGP EVPN). Often times when I’m using a vagrant box I need to get it in a certain state before it’s ready for me to begin using. In the situation of creating lab environments I may need to install FRRouting on the vagrant box and then apply a configuration....

February 5, 2021 · 6 min · Me

Creating a VXLAN Tunnel in Linux with Python

In this post I’m going to talk about how to create a point to point VXLAN tunnel between two linux hosts with Python. To follow along I have created a vagrant environment and example python script in github. ...

May 7, 2019 · 3 min · Me