Sorry seems to be Cumulus heavy – but they push out lots of interesting stuff on social media.
Brilliant set of networking and technology Zines
- Zines by Julia Evans
Automation, orchestration and labs
- Good set of straight forward and well explained Videos on config management & automation tool Ansible (but based on V1.x of Ansible and from a server - application mgmt. perspective) codereviewvideos
- Securing Network Automation YouTube video and the slides
- Copy SSH key script for network devices and for Linux
- Test Driven Development
- Semaphore – open source Ansible UI
- Cumulus Ansible modules
- Cumulus Ansible demo
- Lab in a Sandbox – Cumulus VX with Vagrant (Video version at the base of the post)
- And more Vagrant materials for learning
- Run your favourite virtual routers in docker for convenient labbing, development and testing
- A promising Ansible networking course from well regarding independent trainer Kirk Byers
- NAPALM (Network Automation and Programmability Abstraction Layer with Multivendor support) – what is NAPLAM? – start video at 26:50 to 45:00 then 1:01:40 to 1:18:00 for another general talk on automation. YouTube video
- Data modelling with YANG and communication using NETCONF. Juniper forum
- Simplifying L2VPN config with custom YANG
SDN
- Cumulus Networks. What is SDN?
Data Centre
- Cumulus blog on Data Centre monitoring – part 3 with links to part 1 and 2 in the post
- BGP EVPN with Cumulus Quagga (and Junos) vincent.bernat blog post
- Cumulus validated design guide for Big Data PDF
- Deep dive on the Facebook back pack switch using Cumulus (Clos in a box?)
- Cumulus Data Centre cheat sheet PDF
- Cumulus VMware cloud design
Service Provider
- Segment routing (or Source Packet Routing in Networking – SPRING) the basics. TGregory blog post
- BGP Optimal-Route-Reflection (ORR). TGregory blog post
- More Segment routing/SPRING with some Juniper SDN magic dust!
- Part 3 of a series on building a service provider network with a single Juniper device (EX Series, M Series, MX Series, PTX Series, T Series [any box that supports logical systems]). Juniper forum post
Linux and Linux Networking
- Lean Linux builds for containers! A toolkit for building secure, portable and lean operating systems for containers
- Linux Networking cheat sheet PDF
- Cumulus Linux Command Line Utility (mix of IOS and Junos style operation). NCLU
- Cumulus Linux boot camp - paid course but some useful links at the bottom of the page. Cumulus training
- SSH session management for network devices. Linux SSH
- Cumulus webinars
Junos
- Junos space upgrade. 91sec blog post
Network and security blogs of note
- General networking. Networkers-online. Full list of posts
- Service provider centric. TGregory
- Security/firewall. 91sec
Opinion and observations on failure
- “Post und Postfinance down: Input eines Netzwerk-Experten”! (the rest is in English) - “Failure is inevitable, get used to it”
- An informal survey of real-world communications failures