ciscoyang

Overview
Module Description
Setup
Usage
The cisco_yang Puppet Type
The cisco_yang_netconf Puppet Type
Limitations
Learning Resources

Overview

The ciscoyang module allows configuration of IOS-XR through Cisco supported YANG data models in JSON/XML format. This module bundles the cisco_yang and cisco_yang_netconf Puppet types, providers, Beaker tests, and sample manifests to enable users to configure and manage IOS-XR.

Please refer to the Limitations section for details on currently supported hardware and software. The Limitations section also provides details on compatible Puppet Agent and Puppet Master versions.

This GitHub repository contains the latest version of the ciscoyang module source code. Supported versions of the ciscoyang module are available at Puppet Forge. Please refer to SUPPORT.md for additional details.

Contributions to this Puppet Module are welcome. Guidelines on contributions to the module are captured in CONTRIBUTING.md

Module Description

This module enables management of supported Cisco Network Elements through the cisco_yang and cisco_yang_netconf Puppet types and providers.

A typical role-based architecture scenario might involve a network administrator who uses a version control system to manage various YANG-based configuration files. An IT administrator who is responsible for the puppet infrastructure can simply reference the YANG files from a puppet manifest in order to deploy the configuration.

Setup

Puppet Master

Puppet Server must be installed on the Puppet Master workstation. Please see Install: Puppet Server for detailed install steps.

Next, the ciscoyang module must be installed on the Puppet Master workstation. Please see Puppet Labs: Installing Modules for general information on Puppet module installation.

To manually install the ciscoyang module from the github source, perform the following commands on the Puppet Master workstation:

$ git clone https://github.com/cisco/cisco-yang-puppet-module.git
$ cd cisco-yang-puppet-module
$ puppet module build
$ sudo puppet module install pkg/cisco-ciscoyang-1.0.0.tar.gz

Puppet Agent

The Puppet Agent requires installation and setup on each device. For more information please see the README-agent-install.md document for detailed instructions on agent installation and configuration on Cisco IOS-XR devices.

Usage

The following example manifest shows how to use ciscoyang to configure two VRF instances on a Cisco IOS-XR device.

node 'default' {
  cisco_yang { 'my-config':
    ensure => present,
    target => '{"Cisco-IOS-XR-infra-rsi-cfg:vrfs": [null]}',
    source => '{"Cisco-IOS-XR-infra-rsi-cfg:vrfs": {
          "vrf":[
            {
                "vrf-name":"VOIP",
                "description":"Voice over IP",
                "vpn-id":{
                  "vpn-oui":875,
                  "vpn-index":3
                },
                "create":[
                  null
                ]
            },
            {
                "vrf-name":"INTERNET",
                "description":"Generic external traffic",
                "vpn-id":{
                  "vpn-oui":875,
                  "vpn-index":22
                },
                "create":[
                  null
                ]
            }
          ]
      }
    }',
  }
}

The following example manifest shows how to copy a file from the Puppet master to the agent and then reference it from the manifest.

  file { '/root/bgp.json': source => 'puppet:///modules/ciscoyang/models/bgp.json' }

  cisco_yang { '{"Cisco-IOS-XR-ipv4-bgp-cfg:bgp": [null]}':
    ensure => present,
    mode   => replace,
    source => '/root/bgp.json',
  }
}

The following example manifest shows how to use ciscoyang to configure two VRF instances on a Cisco IOS-XR device using the Yang NETCONF type.

node 'default' {
  cisco_yang_netconf { 'my-config':
    target => '<vrfs xmlns="http://cisco.com/ns/yang/Cisco-IOS-XR-infra-rsi-cfg"/>',
    source => '<vrfs xmlns="http://cisco.com/ns/yang/Cisco-IOS-XR-infra-rsi-cfg">
                 <vrf>
                   <vrf-name>VOIP</vrf-name>
                   <create/>
                   <description>Voice over IP</description>
                   <vpn-id>
                     <vpn-oui>875</vpn-oui>
                     <vpn-index>3</vpn-index>
                   </vpn-id>
                 </vrf>
                 <vrf>
                   <vrf-name>INTERNET</vrf-name>
                   <create/>
                   <description>Generic external traffic</description>
                   <vpn-id>
                     <vpn-oui>875</vpn-oui>
                     <vpn-index>22</vpn-index>
                   </vpn-id>
                 </vrf>
              </vrfs>',
    mode => replace,
    force => false,
  }
}

The `cisco_yang` Puppet Type

Allows IOS-XR to be configured using YANG models in JSON format via gRPC.

Parameters

`target`

The model path of the target node in YANG JSON format, or a reference to a local file containing the model path. For example, to configure the list of vrfs in IOS-XR, you could specify a target of '[null]' or reference a file which contained the same JSON string.

`mode`

Determines which mode is used when setting configuration via ensure=>present. Valid values are replace and merge (which is the default). If replace is specified, the current configuration will be replaced by the configuration in the source property (corresponding to the ReplaceConfig gRPC operation). If merge is specified, the configuration in the source property will be merged into the current configuration (corresponding to the MergeConfig gRPC operation).

`force`

Valid values are true and false (which is the default). If true is specified, then the config in the source property is set on the device regardless of the current value. If false is specified (or no value is specified), the default behavior is to set the configuration only if it is different from the running configuration.

Properties

`ensure`

Determines whether a certain configuration should be present or not on the device. Valid values are present and absent.

`source`

The model data in YANG JSON format, or a reference to a local file containing the model data. This property is only used when ensure=>present is specified. In addition, if source is not specified when ensure=>present is used, source will default to the value of the target parameter. This removes some amount of redundancy when the source and target values are the same (or very similar).

The `cisco_yang_netconf` Puppet Type

Allows IOS-XR to be configured using YANG models in XML format via NETCONF.

Parameters

`target`

The Yang Netconf XML formatted string or file location containing the filter used to query the existing configuration. For example, to configure the list of vrfs in IOS-XR, you could specify a target of '' or reference a file which contained the equivalent Netconf XML string.

`mode`

Determines which mode is used when setting configuration. Valid values are replace and merge (which is the default). If replace is specified, the current configuration will be replaced by the configuration in the source property. If merge is specified, the configuration in the source property will be merged into the current configuration.

`force`

Properties

`source`

The model data in YANG XML Netconf format, or a reference to a local file containing the model data. *The Netconf protocol does not allow deletion of configuration subtrees, but instead requires addition of 'operation="delete"' attributes in the YANG XML specifed in the source property.

Limitations

Minimum Requirements:

Open source Puppet version 4.3.2+ or Puppet Enterprise 2015.3.2+
Cisco XRv 9000, IOS XRv, NCS5K, NCS5500, OS Version 6.1.2+, 6.2.x

Learning Resources

Puppet
- https://learn.puppetlabs.com/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppet_(software)
Markdown (for editing documentation)
- https://help.github.com/articles/markdown-basics/
Ruby

License

Copyright (c) 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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ciscoyang

Table of Contents

Overview

Module Description

Setup

Puppet Master

Puppet Agent

Usage

The cisco_yang Puppet Type

Parameters

target

mode

force

Properties

ensure

source

The cisco_yang_netconf Puppet Type

Parameters

target

mode

force

Properties

source

Limitations

Learning Resources

License

The `cisco_yang` Puppet Type

`target`

`mode`

`force`

`ensure`

`source`

The `cisco_yang_netconf` Puppet Type

`target`

`mode`

`force`

`source`