Installing Oxidized on Alpine Linux

Oxidized is a tool used for network device configuration backup and it is available on GitHub. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install Oxidized on Alpine Linux.

Prerequisites

• A running instance of Alpine Linux
• A user account with administrative privileges

Step 1 - Install Dependencies

The first step is to install the required dependencies such as Git, Ruby, Ruby-dev, and OpenSSL.

apk add git ruby ruby-dev openssl-dev build-base

Step 2 - Install Oxidized

We will now clone the Oxidized repository using Git, navigate to the cloned directory, and install Oxidized.

git clone https://github.com/ytti/oxidized.git
cd oxidized
gem install bundler
bundle install --path .vendor

Step 3 - Configure Oxidized

Once Oxidized is installed, we need to configure it. Oxidized stores the configuration file in /etc/oxidized/config. In this step, we will create a new configuration file.

mv /etc/oxidized/config /etc/oxidized/config.orig
touch /etc/oxidized/config
nano /etc/oxidized/config

Here is an example configuration file:

---
username: admin
password: password
models:
  - cisco
  - juniper
sources:
  router1:
    type: cisco
    ip: 192.0.2.1
    username: user
    password: pass
output:
  file:
    directory: /var/lib/oxidized/configs
    format: "%h.%y%m%d.%H%M%S"

In the above configuration file, we have configured Oxidized to backup configuration files for Cisco and Juniper devices. We also have configured the credentials for the router1 device and where the backup files will be stored.

Step 4 - Start Oxidized

To start Oxidized, run the following command:

oxidized

By default, Oxidized will run in the foreground, and you can use Ctrl+C to stop it.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have gone through the steps to install Oxidized on Alpine Linux. We also have created a new configuration file and started Oxidized.