Initializing Nornir

Easiest way of initializing nornir is with the function InitNornir.

With InitNornir you can initialize nornir with a configuration file, with code or with a combination of both.

Let’s start with a configuration file:

  1. [2]:
  1. %highlight_file config.yaml
  1. [2]:
  1.  1 ---
  2.  2 inventory:
  3.  3     plugin: SimpleInventory
  4.  4     options:
  5.  5         host_file: "inventory/hosts.yaml"
  6.  6         group_file: "inventory/groups.yaml"
  7.  7         defaults_file: "inventory/defaults.yaml"
  8.  8 runner:
  9.  9     plugin: threaded
  10. 10     options:
  11. 11         num_workers: 100

Now to create the nornir object:

  1. [3]:
  1. from nornir import InitNornir
  2. nr = InitNornir(config_file="config.yaml")

You can also initialize nornir programmatically without a configuration file:

  1. [4]:
  1. from nornir import InitNornir
  2. nr = InitNornir(
  3.     runner={
  4.         "plugin": "threaded",
  5.         "options": {
  6.             "num_workers": 100,
  7.         },
  8.     },
  9.     inventory={
  10.         "plugin": "SimpleInventory",
  11.         "options": {
  12.             "host_file": "inventory/hosts.yaml",
  13.             "group_file": "inventory/groups.yaml"
  14.         },
  15.     },
  16. )

Or with a combination of both methods:

  1. [5]:
  1. from nornir import InitNornir
  2. nr = InitNornir(
  3.     config_file="config.yaml",
  4.     runner={
  5.         "plugin": "threaded",
  6.         "options": {
  7.             "num_workers": 50,
  8.         },
  9.     },
  10. )
  1. [6]:
  1. nr.config.runner.options["num_workers"]
  1. [6]:
  1. 50