Preparing Jinja templates
The first step is to download the latest version of our Jinja Templates and “configure” them to fit our project.
The Jinja Templates can be downloaded from our GitHub repository. See External resources. Make sure to select the branch that corresponds to the appropriate FOS/FMG release. In this document, branch release/7.2 will be used.
We provide the templates for several designs described in the Overlay network designs chapter of the SD-WAN / SD-Branch Architecture for MSSPs guide. As you will notice, the deployment workflow described throughout this document is mostly agnostic to the chosen design: all you need is to use the templates from the right folder in our GitHub repository. We will focus on the newer "BGP on Loopback" design. However, we will explicitly highlight all the steps that require adjustments, should you choose the traditional "BGP per Overlay" design.
Assuming that you have successfully downloaded the Jinja Templates, we can examine them in more detail: