JINJA2 HANDS-ON EXERCISES

For each exercise, create a Jinja2 document that will transform one of the
YAML documents you created in the previous set of exercises into a router
configuration. You can use the online Jinja parser to check the results.

1. Using a dictionary created in YAML exercise #1 that contains hostname,

loopback and banner, create the following router configuration. Skip the
banner configuration if the banner attribute is not defined.

hostname <hostname>
!
interface loopback 0
ip address <loopback> 255.255.255.255
!
banner motd #
<banner>
#

2. Using a dictionary created in YAML exercise #2 that contains hostname,

loopback, and interfaces (list of interface names), create the following
router configuration:

hostname <hostname>
!
interface loopback 0
ip address <loopback> 255.255.255.255
!
! for each interface
interface <interface name>
no shutdown

3. Using a list of hostnames created in YAML exercise #3 create Ansible

inventory file:

# for each host

#
<hostname> ansible_user=cisco ansible_ssh_pass=cisco

4. Using a list of username/password pairs created in YAML exercise #4

create a local user database for a Cisco IOS router:

! for every user

username <username> password <password>

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 5. Using the list of users created in YAML exercise #5 create a local user
database for a Cisco IOS router. Use privilege level 2 for users without
privilege attribute.

! for every user

username <username> password <password>
username <username> privilege <privilege>
!
! for users with autocommand attribute
username <username> autocommand <autocommand>

6. Using the list of BGP neighbors created in YAML exercise #6 create Cisco
IOS BGP router configuration:

router bgp 64000

 For BGP neighbors with state = absent:

no neighbor <address>

 For all other BGP neighbors:

neighbor <address> remote-as <asn>

neighbor <address> description <description>
! only when policy attribute is present
neighbor <address> route-map <policy> in

 For BGP neighbors with state = down:

neighbor <address> shutdown

7. Create BGP neighbor configuration as above, adding prefix lists where

necessary:
 For every neighbor that has prefixes attribute

neighbor <address> prefix-list bgp-neighbor-<address> in

 Create a prefix list for every neighbor that has prefixes attribute.

! for every prefix in the list

ip prefix-list bgp-neighbor-<address> seq <count> permit <value>

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 8. Create a BGP router configuration using YAML document created in YAML
exercise #8:
 Create common device configuration as in exercise 1
 Create BGP configuration as in exercise 7
 Create interfaces configuration:

! for every interface in the interfaces list

!
interface <name>
ip address <address>

9. [I]1 Using the following data model (source @

https://github.com/ipspace/MPLS-infrastructure/blob/master/fabric.yml)

---
node: E1
fabric:
- {left: E1, left_ip: 10.0.0.21, left_port: GigabitEthernet0/2,
right: E2, right_ip: 10.0.0.22, right_port: GigabitEthernet0/2,
cost: 5 }
- {left: E1, left_ip: 10.0.0.13, left_port: GigabitEthernet0/1,
right: PE1, right_ip: 10.0.0.14, right_port: GigabitEthernet0/1,
cost: 10 }
- {left: E2, left_ip: 10.0.0.17, left_port: GigabitEthernet0/1,
right: PE1, right_ip: 10.0.0.18, right_port: GigabitEthernet0/2,
cost: 1 }
- {left: E3, left_ip: 10.0.0.41, left_port: GigabitEthernet0/2,
right: E4, right_ip: 10.0.0.42, right_port: GigabitEthernet0/2 }
- {left: E3, left_ip: 10.0.0.29, left_port: GigabitEthernet0/3,
right: PE2, right_ip: 10.0.0.30, right_port: GigabitEthernet0/1 }
- {left: E4, left_ip: 10.0.0.37, left_port: GigabitEthernet0/3,
right: PE2, right_ip: 10.0.0.38, right_port: GigabitEthernet0/2 }

nodes:
- name: E1
mgmt: 172.16.1.110
rid: 192.168.0.2
- name: E2
mgmt: 172.16.2.1 255.255.255.240
rid: 192.168.0.4

1
This is an intermediately-hard exercise. You might want to solve it after getting
more hands-on Jinja2 practice.

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 Create the router configuration for node specified in the node
attribute:

hostname <name>
interface loopback 0
ip address <rid> 255.255.255.255
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/0
ip address <mgmt> ! use mask 255.255.255.0 when mask is not specified
!
! for every fabric interface
interface <port>
ip address <ip> 255.255.255.252
no shutdown
ip ospf 1 area 0
!
router ospf 1
router-id <rid>

Use macros to generate fabric interface configuration.

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