Step 1 - Create the Main Ansible Playbook for Creating an Overlay

Create another playbook for creating another overlay following the same structure.

touch /home/pod3u1/LTRDCN-2654/ansible-ndfc/overlay.yml
cat <<EOF > /home/pod3u1/LTRDCN-2654/ansible-ndfc/overlay.yml
---
# main playbook

- name: Create Overlay
  hosts: ndfc
  gather_facts: false
  roles:
    - create-overlay

EOF

Step 2 - Execute the Ansible Playbook

To execute an Ansible playbook you simply just use ansible-playbook again. The -i is for inventory and locally, you will run the switch discovery for your staging fabric, just as you ran the Ansible NXOS roles to configure your staging VXLAN EVPN fabric before putting your devops workflow into a pipeline.

Return to your VSCode Terminal and ensure you are in the correct directory.

cd /home/pod3u1/LTRDCN-2654/ansible-ndfc/

Run the switch discovery playbook to add your staging switches to your Staging fabric in NDFC. This task takes a moment. Check your NDFC instance while this runs.

ansible-playbook -i hosts overlay.yml -vvv

We are leveraging -vvv for verbose debugging output for each task that is executed. This will highlight each steps the playbook is executing.

During execution of the playbook, if you would like, while logged into NDFC, you can actually see the new tenant overlay VRF and associated Networks being created. Just browse to the VRFs and/or Networks tab under the MSD fabric.

Upon successful execution of this playbook, the spine and leaf roles, and the tasks and variables defined in each, will configure VXLAN EVPN VLANs, VNIs, SVIs, Tenant VRFs, etc.

    PLAY [Create Overlay] **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

    TASK [create-overlay : Create Tenant VRF] **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
    changed: [10.3.0.17]

    TASK [create-overlay : Create Networks] ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
    changed: [10.3.0.17]

    PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
    10.3.0.17                 : ok=2    changed=2    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0

Step 3 - Return to the MSD Fabric

Depending on how long you have taken to take your Ansible Playbook. You may need to log again in NDFC. Follow the previous intructions on how to do it.

Since, the newly created VRF and Networks were created under the MSD fabric. It is important to go to the MSF Fabric

1. Click on Manage
2. Double Click on MSD

Step 4 - Review AnsibleVRF VRF Attachments

Return to NDFC. Review and confirm the AnsibleVRF created by the Ansible playbook using the NDFC Ansible Collection modules:

1. Click VRFs in the top navigation bar
2. Double Click on AnsibleVRF



3. Click on VRF Attachments

As you can see Ansible has created the new VRF.

Step 5 - Review New Networks

Now, that we have verified that Ansible has created teh VRF. let's the two networks that we created leveraging Ansible Playbook using the NDFC Ansible Collection modules.

1. Click Networks in the top navigation bar
2. Double Click AnsibleNet1



3. Click Network Attachments

Summary Wrap-Up

With that, you have successfully completed the lab! Congratulations!
You architected and deployed multiple VXLAN EVPN fabrics through NDFC, providing external connectivity and taking things a step further by using your fabrics to build a Multi-Site environment. You verified configuration and tested each fabric and Multi-Site Domain along the way.
After that, you put on your network automation hat and using Ansible, performed a Day2 operation of onboardinng a new tenant overlay across your Multi-Site Domain fabrics.
Thank you!