I've been documenting my quest to make building and destroying a local lab using NXOSv 9000 as painless as possible in part 1 and part 2. This post is pretty much the TL;DR of the series, as in the meantime I figured out the best way to run multiple instances of this image through Vagrant. So here's what I've been using for the past half year together with a few Ansible playbooks to perform some basic but very necessary tasks.

I started the new year troubleshooting Docker Overlay network traffic pushed through a Cisco ACI fabric that was not working despite physical connectivity and contracts being in place. Or so we thought... as VXLAN encapsulated packets (used by Docker overlays) do not follow the usual expected pattern.