I needed to do some testing of Juniper Contrail API calls, and for that I could use some Juniper switches controlled by Contrail. As Juniper has recently launched a virtual vEX image, I figured I’d give it a go. Below are build instructions for creating a vagrant box for Juniper vEX. Tools Vagrant: Vagrant from Hashicorp. Vagrant is a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments in a single workflow.

I needed to replicate a Juniper SRX firewall to create and test a BGP config for a customer. I could have done this in GNS3/EVE-NG or some other virtual enviornment, but I find that Vagrant/Libvirt gives me the most usability when trying to reuse a setup over time, such as for automated testing. So with that goal in mind, I needed to create a vagrant box of Juniper’s vSRX firewall, but specifically for use with libvirt.

I needed to replicate a production Fortinet firewall environment to do some testing. I could have done this in GNS3/EVE-NG or some other virtual enviornment, but I find that Vagrant/Libvirt gives me the most usability when trying to reuse a setup over time, such as for automated testing. So with that goal in mind, I needed to create a vagrant box of Fortinet’s FortiVM firewall, but specifically for use with libvirt.

I’ve decided to try and document the useful workflows and code I’ll generate during my upcoming new job. Here’s how I went about automating the creation of these blog pages and publishing of this blog to a directory on my web server. I’ll first focus on the process and code, then at the bottom of this page will be descriptions about why I’ve chosen these tools and specific workflow. Tools Hugo: A open-source static site generator Ananke: The Hugo theme used for the blog GitLab: SCM (Source Code Management) tool/site including CI pipelines VS Code: My preferred code editing platform GitKraken: A GUI for git because I’m lazy sometimes Workflow Init a repo It’s easiest to setup a git repository first, then proceed with all the remaining steps by creating the files in the repo directory.