VyOS example

VyOS is a fully open source network OS that runs on a wide range of hardware, virtual machines, and cloud providers (https://vyos.io/). Because of its open source nature, it is gaining wide support in the open source community. Many of the open source projects are using VyOS as the default platform for testing. In the last section of the chapter, we will look at a quick VyOS example.

The VyOS image can be downloaded in various formats: https://wiki.vyos.net/wiki/Installation. Once downloaded and initialized, we can install the Python library on our management host:

(venv) $ pip install vymgmt

The example script, vyos_1.py, is very simple:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import vymgmt
vyos = vymgmt.Router('192.168.2.116', 'vyos', password='vyos')
vyos.login()
vyos.configure()
vyos.set("system domain-name networkautomationnerds.net")
vyos.commit()
vyos.save()
vyos.exit()
vyos.logout()

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