Network Automation – Module 0: Installation

Tips

This workshop is resource intensive. We recommend using a machine with at least 8GB of RAM and 4 cores.
Unfortunately MacOS is not supported. The workshop relies heavily on ContainerLab which does not have native support for MacOS
The workshop assumes it is running on an internet accessible machine and relies on the public IP for a lot of the functionality. This means that it probably won’t work on your local machine, but we aim to add that at a later stage.
The installation is easy to follow, but takes about 10 minutes

Installation Video

Clone the workshop

git clone https://github.com/netboxlabs/netbox-learning.git
cd netbox-learning/automation-zero-to-hero

Set environment variables

This script sets all the necessary environment variables so that the correct ports are used for the services and defaults to using the public IPv4 of the host for service URLs.

source ./0_set_envvars.sh

Keep the output from this handy somewhere as we’ll reference it a lot.

Install host tooling

./1_install_host_tooling.sh

Check it was successful:

docker version
clab version

Start Slurpit

./2_start_slurpit.sh

Now you can access Slurpit.

echo "http://${MY_EXTERNAL_IP}:${SLURPIT_PORT}"
(Example output, yours will differ)
http://139.178.74.171:8000

username admin@admin.compassword 12345678

Start the ContainerLab network

./3_start_network.sh network/1_the_hard_way

Start NetBox with the Slurpit plugin

Tip

This can take up to 5-6 minutes depending on your hardware. Use docker compose logs -f in a separate tab to follow along. If you see Error next to the netbox-docker-netbox-1 container this is often because the healthcheck timeout is shorter than the start up time and it will recover itself automatically.

./4_start_netbox.sh

Now you can access NetBox.

echo "http://${MY_EXTERNAL_IP}:${NETBOX_PORT}"
(Example output, yours will differ)
http://139.178.74.171:8001

username admin
password admin

Start Icinga

./5_start_icinga.sh

Now you can access Icinga.

echo "http://${MY_EXTERNAL_IP}:${ICINGA_PORT}"
(Example output, yours will differ)
http://139.178.74.171:8002

username icingaadmin
password icinga

Start Netpicker

./6_start_netpicker.sh

Now you can access Netpicker.

echo "http://${MY_EXTERNAL_IP}:${NETPICKER_PORT}"
(Example output, yours will differ)
http://139.178.74.171:8003

username admin@admin.com
password 12345678

Network Automation Zero to Hero GitHub Repo

You can find the Network Automation Zero to Hero GitHub Repo here.

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NetBox – Zero To Hero Training