Arista Network Test Automation (ANTA) Framework
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ANTA is a Python framework that automates tests for Arista devices.
- ANTA provides a set of tests to validate the state of your network
- ANTA can be used to:
- Automate NRFU (Network Ready For Use) tests on a preproduction network
- Automate tests on a live network (periodically or on demand)
- ANTA can be used:
- As a Python library in your own application
- Via the ANTA CLI
Install ANTA library
The library will NOT install the necessary dependencies for the CLI.
# Install ANTA as a library
pip install anta
Install ANTA CLI
If you plan to use ANTA only as a CLI tool you can use pipx to install it.
pipx is a tool to install and run Python applications in isolated environments. Refer to pipx instructions to install on your system.
pipx installs ANTA in an isolated Python environment and makes it available globally.
This is not recommended if you plan to contribute to ANTA
# Install ANTA CLI with pipx
$ pipx install anta[cli]
# Run ANTA CLI
$ anta --help
Usage: anta [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Arista Network Test Automation (ANTA) CLI.
Options:
--help Show this message and exit.
--version Show the version and exit.
--log-file FILE Send the logs to a file. If logging level is
DEBUG, only INFO or higher will be sent to
stdout. [env var: ANTA_LOG_FILE]
-l, --log-level [critical|error|warning|info|debug]
ANTA logging level [env var:
ANTA_LOG_LEVEL; default: INFO]
Commands:
check Commands to validate configuration files.
debug Commands to execute EOS commands on remote devices.
exec Commands to execute various scripts on EOS devices.
get Commands to get information from or generate inventories.
nrfu Run ANTA tests on selected inventory devices.
psirt Run ANTA tests for Arista security advisories.
You can also still choose to install it directly with pip:
pip install anta[cli]
Documentation
The documentation is published on the ANTA package website.
Contribution guide
Contributions are welcome. Please refer to the contribution guide.
Credits
Thank you to Jeremy Schulman for aio-eapi, the upstream source for ANTA's asynceapi client.
Thank you to Angélique Phillipps, Colin MacGiollaEáin, Khelil Sator, Matthieu Tache, Onur Gashi, Paul Lavelle, Guillaume Mulocher and Thomas Grimonet for their contributions and guidance.
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