In the interest of brevity, it is assumed that you have a GCP Account setup and already have a GCP Project selected or created, in which to launch your VMs. This blog post (Part 1 of a four-part series) aims to share my learnings on getting EVE-NG installed in GCP. As a secondary objective, I would like to pursue some networking certifications and need to be able to spin up some basic testbeds to facilitate studying. Juniper vMX, Arista vEOS, Cisco Nexus 9000v) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in order to simulate different customer environments.
It is typically used for building networking labs for certification study purposes or for proof-of-concept testing.įor a current project I am working on, I need to be able to spin up a multivendor network topology (e.g.
EVE-NG is a network emulation tool for building and configuring virtual network topologies ( ).