Usage

CI/CD Integration

The tool can easily be integrated with CI/CD workflows. Arguments can either be provided via command line or environment variables. The tool will exit with a non-zero exit code in case of an error or non-suppressed events being discovered during the pre-change analysis. The --output-summary and --output-url arguments can be used to write a summary and/or a link (URL) to a file, which can then be embedded into notifications (e.g., Webex).

Network as Code Integration

Network as Code allows users to instantiate network fabrics in minutes using an easy to use, opinionated data model. A planned change can be validated before applying it to a production environment by running a terraform plan operation first and then providing the output to nexus-pcv to trigger a pre-change validation.

export PCV_HOSTNAME_IP=10.1.1.1
export PCV_USERNAME=admin
export PCV_PASSWORD=Cisco123
export PCV_GROUP=LAB
export PCV_SITE=LAB1
terraform plan -out=plan.tfplan
terraform show -json plan.tfplan > plan.json
nexus-pcv --name "PCV1" --nac-tf-plan plan.json