Arista Cloud Engineer: CloudVision Portal (CVP) Specialist (CVP) – Details

Detaillierter Kursinhalt

Overview and Architecture of CloudVision Portal (CVP)

• Introduction to CloudVision
  • Multifunctional NetOps platform
• Automation Landscape
  • Modern Network Automation Requirements
  • Network Automation Approaches
  • Complete automation for the NetOps lifecycle
• Deployment Options
  • On-Premise - Appliance, Virtual
  • Cloud-based - CVaaS
  • Onboarding, Authentication, and Connectivity Requirements for CVaaS
  • Scale - Distribution and Limits
• Communication portal
  • Arista eAPI
  • Controlling an EOS environment
  • eAPI interfaces: Python, Ansible, Browser
  • Enabling eAPI
  • Streaming Agent - TerminAttr
  • eAPI on TerminAttr with gRPC connections
  • eAPI on TerminAttr - Warnings

CloudVision Portal - Features

• Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) from CloudVision
  • Processes, models, provisioning
  • DHCP server on CVP cluster
  • DHCP Setup
  • Bootstrap ZTP with CVP
  • Contactless replacement
• Initial deployment
  • Initial Switch Deployment
  • AAA protocols - RADIUS, TACACS
  • Creating a new role, RBAC roles
  • User Management
  • Adding EOS Images to CVP, EOS Lifecycle
• EOL BugAlert lifecycle
• Configurations
• Change control models; snapshots; backtrack
• Image management
• Devices view
  • Inventory, sorting and search / filter
  • Removal of provisioning and decommissioning
  • Provisioning and adding to provisioning
  • SSH to device
  • Information about the tunnels in the next hop
  • Compare Options - VXLAN Table, Routing Table
• Labels and tags
  • Value associated with devices
  • Used in topology view and dashboards.
  • Custom labels
  • Interface markup UI
• Telemetry
  • Status streaming or polling
  • SysDB, NetDB, NetDL
  • TerminAttr - Streaming Telemetry Agent
  • Continuous analysis
• CloudVision Topology View
  • Visibility from customer to cloud
  • VXLAN filters and overlay
  • IPSEC tunnels
  • Layout of cloud-hosted devices
  • Updating Third-Party Devices
• Advanced Widgets
  • Customizable dashboards
  • Export dashboards as images for reports
  • Browse and create dashboards
  • Device Comparison
  • Create a new widget - Inputs, Topology, NQA
  • Troubleshooting with CLI and CVP
  • Predictive analysis
  • Visibility of flows
  • Behavioral baselines, deviation notifications
  • Address search

CloudVision Portal - Advanced Automation

• Introduction to CloudVision Studios
  • Concept of CloudVision Studios
  • Studio Types - Specialized, Integrated, Custom/User
  • Studios - Workspaces
  • Point-and-click workflow for DC configuration automation
  • Inventory and Topology Studio
  • Studio L3 Leaf-Spine Fabric - DC, PODs
• Ansible Portal and CloudVision
  • Ansible basics
  • Ansible as a configuration builder
  • Integration of Ansible and EOS
  • Arista CVP-Collection
  • Arista Validated Design by Ansible (AVD)
  • Inventory file
  • Ansible Arista modules, data structure
  • Playbooks - Scaling with Ansible
• Python
  • Basics of Python scripting
  • Python interpreter
  • Configlet builder with Python
  • Configlet Builder with Python for EVPN
  • Maths and strings
  • If/Else - Making Decisions
  • Loops
  • File operations
  • Functions
  • Modules
  • Python with EOS
• Using APIs, Python, and Ansible with CVP
  • Access to the online API library
  • Access to REST API
  • CVP API command script
  • CVP API script to authenticate
• Creating a Configlet Constructor in Python for EVPN Deployments
  • Process, requirements, configuration
• Python code
  • VLAN database, SVI/Anycast gateway, VTI, BGP configuration
• Advanced studios
  • EVPN Services Workflow
  • Build and Submit Workspace
  • Interface Manager Workflow
  • Creation / Modification of studios
  • Create a model
  • Configlet builder vs. Jinja2 vs. Mako