Ansible: VyOS

Ansible has the ability to simplify the configuration of VyOS systems, using a few different techniques.

If you have the Vyos.Vyos collection installed, you can specify a section within a task to configure a server.

Note that you must set the ansible_connection variable to network_cli for this to work.

Line by Line configuration

Instead of running the following:

configure
set system host-name vyos.for.example

You can add the following to an ansible playbook

- name: set hostname
  vyos.vyos.vyos_config:
    lines:
      - set system host-name vyos.for.example

By specifying the desired hostname in a variable, defined per-host, you can use one task on any number of hosts at once:

- name: set hostname
  vyos.vyos.vyos_config:
    lines:
      - set system host-name {{ hostname }}

You can also use a configuration file template - for class, I modified this template made by my professor.

- name: load configuration template
  vyos.vyos.vyos_config:
    src: config.boot.j2