Running Nornir on netlab inventory

[a-v-popov]

I tried nornir_anisible to read inventory created by netlab.
It seem to choke on hosts.yml and ignore topology.json.

I could think of a few other approaches though:

• make netlab produce SimpleInventory
  https://nornir.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/inventory.html
• make netlab and Nornir cooperate though some other inventory
  https://nornir.readthedocs.io/en/latest/community/plugin_list.html
• write Nornir inventory plugin to read data from netlab, whatever it might be

Anyone has any experience, plans, or thoughts around this matter?

[ipspace]

I tried nornir_anisible to read inventory created by netlab. It seem to choke on hosts.yml and ignore topology.json.

So I'm guessing it's not Ansible-compatible enough.

• make netlab produce SimpleInventory

That should be pretty easy with a new output module. This could be a decent start:

https://github.com/ipspace/netlab/blob/dev/netsim/outputs/devices.py

Anyone has any experience, plans, or thoughts around this matter?

Some experience with the output modules, no plans. The nornir functionality we might need in netlab (parallel execution of configuration tasks) is already built in cli/initial.

[a-v-popov]

Thank you.
I raised an issue with nornir_ansible
carlmontanari/nornir_ansible#173