My Git server of choice is Gitea, because GitLab is a little heavy on resource usage for home labs. I’m using Git as well, but that’s not really necessary to make use of the rest of this setup. Also, running a routing protocol between the lab network and the management server was a requirement. The plan is to look at Ansible and Nornir mostly, but I’ve still tried to keep things generic enough so I can swap different parts. Besides the multi-vendor part, I was curious if I could leverage Docker for the automation tools. I finally got around to actually building it. For practicing different network automation skills, I’ve had the idea for a while already to build some kind of multi-vendor lab network, then connect that lab to a management server.
