Example of using Jinja

Template templates/router_template.txt is a plain text file:

hostname {{name}}
!
interface Loopback10
 description MPLS loopback
 ip address 10.10.{{id}}.1 255.255.255.255
 !
interface GigabitEthernet0/0
 description WAN to {{name}} sw1 G0/1
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/0.1{{id}}1
 description MPLS to {{to_name}}
 encapsulation dot1Q 1{{id}}1
 ip address 10.{{id}}.1.2 255.255.255.252
 ip ospf network point-to-point
 ip ospf hello-interval 1
 ip ospf cost 10
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/1
 description LAN {{name}} to sw1 G0/2 !
interface GigabitEthernet0/1.{{IT}}
 description PW IT {{name}} - {{to_name}}
 encapsulation dot1Q {{IT}}
 xconnect 10.10.{{to_id}}.1 {{id}}11 encapsulation mpls
 backup peer 10.10.{{to_id}}.2 {{id}}21
  backup delay 1 1
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/1.{{BS}}
 description PW BS {{name}} - {{to_name}}
 encapsulation dot1Q {{BS}}
 xconnect 10.10.{{to_id}}.1 {{to_id}}{{id}}11 encapsulation mpls
  backup peer 10.10.{{to_id}}.2 {{to_id}}{{id}}21
  backup delay 1 1
!
router ospf 10
 router-id 10.10.{{id}}.1
 auto-cost reference-bandwidth 10000
 network 10.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 area 0
 !

Data file routers_info.yml

- id: 11
  name: Liverpool
  to_name: LONDON
  IT: 791
  BS: 1550
  to_id: 1

- id: 12
  name: Bristol
  to_name: LONDON
  IT: 793
  BS: 1510
  to_id: 1

- id: 14
  name: Coventry
  to_name: Manchester
  IT: 892
  BS: 1650
  to_id: 2

Script to generate configurations router_config_generator_ver2.py

from jinja2 import Environment, FileSystemLoader
import yaml

env = Environment(loader=FileSystemLoader('templates'))
template = env.get_template('router_template.txt')

with open('routers_info.yml') as f:
    routers = yaml.safe_load(f)

for router in routers:
    r1_conf = router['name'] + '_r1.txt'
    with open(r1_conf, 'w') as f:
        f.write(template.render(router))

File router_config_generator.py imports from jinja2 module:

• FileSystemLoader - a loader that allows working with a file system

  • path to directory where templates are located is specified here

  • in this case template is in templates directory

• Environment - a class for describing environment parameters. In this

  case only loader is specified, but you can specify how to process a template

Note that template is now in templates directory.