Nornir 3 Filtering Demo

This repository contains a set of examples and use-cases using nornir filtering.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Structure
• Videos
• Reference Documentation
• Filtering Cheatsheet

Installation

In order to use the demo, please follow the installation instructions below:

1. Create the virtual environment to run the application in:

virtualenv --python=`which python3` venv
source venv/bin/activate

2. Install the requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Structure

The demos provided in this repository are provided as "canned demos".

That is, all commands, requirements and dependencies are contained inside each folder.

The demos work their way up in terms of complexity and depth of use-cases and are intended to be followed in the order that is shown below:

In addition to this, each demo contains all the code of the previous demo, so you can compare functions and see the differences.

For example, 003-advanced will contain all code from the 001-basic and 002-intermediate demos.

Videos

To watch all three demos, including explanations, please watch the video below:

nornir - Filtering Deep Dive

Reference Documentation

Below are some links to other resources which you might find of assistance:

Nornir - Offical Documentation - Filtering the inventory

Filtering Cheatsheet

See the CHEATSHEET