The goal of this repo is to give a user an understanding of how to leverage advanced templating as applied to 128T config.
If you're a beginner to templating, click on the link to learn more on the open-source Liquid templating language.
Prerequisites: Understand concepts such as conditional statements and loops
This guide has 5 parts, it starts with a sample config as shown in base_template and incrementally adds more logic to the template to make it more robust, ease of user management, etc.
Goal: Identify / Mark variables
In here, we take the base_template and identify site-to-site variables and mark those fields to be sourced from the variables.
Goal: Use if-else conditions and loops within the template.
Here, we take the add-on to the template from Part 1 and add if else logic. In this example, we automatically configure the right pci address in the configuration template given a Hardware identifier in the variables tab.
Goal: Deleting config elements.
Here, we see two different types of delete syntax needed depending on the config element.
Goal: Emulate a dictionary within the template
Goal: Use network filters to determine IPs in a network