…Happy Mondays?!
Intent or Intuitive Networking
- Ciscos SD-Access. All The Pieces - Packet Pushers
- Intent-Based Network Automation with Ansible
Linux
- “Top” 20 command line tools to monitor Linux
Docker & Containers
- Cumulus Container Networking
- Building a Containerized OpenStack Lab
Labs
- Virtualization (lab) battle EVE-NG vs. VIRL
- Cisco DevNet learning labs and ansible lab - not had much joy getting anything tangible working but your mileage may vary
Certification and Careers
- Cisco. Free Cisco Global Cybersecurity Scholarships!
- Juniper new Cloud track (SDN Automation track replaced already!)
- Preparing for the CCNP TSHOOT exam blog post (EVE-NG lab)
- CCIE or automation career path?
Cisco
- Cisco <> Juniper interoperability cookbook PDF
- Troubleshooting Cisco Network Elements with the USE Method
- BGP as-override vs allow-as-in
- Safety in the Cloud? Cisco loses customers Meraki data
- An overview of the CCDE
Juniper and Junos
- Identity Management Service Feature Guide
- Understanding the Ephemeral Configuration Database. Here for information only. I do not suggest you use this unless you REALLY KNOW why and how!!
- Try Contrail and AppFormix
- Cisco <> Juniper interoperability cookbook PDF
- BGP - AS path pre-pending
- BGP - loops (allow-as-in) on Juniper
- Watch “Route Sharing RIB groups” on YouTube (21 mins)
- Junos Telemetry - Detecting Microbursts
- Preparing for JNCIA-JUNOS – a Juniper Ambassadors guide
- Juniper free OpenLab Contrail + Hands On, London. October 18th
- Fundamentals of Egress Peering Engineering PDF
- 1-JUNOS well it was a well-intentioned aim a few years back….for the first time in 5+ years, JUNOS is now merged back into a single software train across all platforms new version 17.3R1
Data Centre & Whitebox
- Cumulus Web Scale Cheat Sheet
- Cumulus Network Command Line Utility (NCLU) video (10mins)
- Cumulus Host Pack and news article
- MLAG – host network config guide. Cumulus blog post
- The half rack data centre – blog post
- Cumulus. Configure a BGP unnumbered leaf & spine topology and BGP configuration made easy
- Juniper DC deployment EVPN/VXLAN day one guide
- Juniper Ambassador Dan Hearty blog post. EVPN-VXLAN inter-tenant routing on Juniper QFX / MX
- Cumulus and OpenStack
Service Provider
- Slimming down the internet routing table
- Securing BGP a case study
- Juniper - Traffic Engineering 2.0. Proceedings in Segment Routing/SPRING and Actual Use Cases. YouTube video (58mins)
- Juniper Ambassador Dan Hearty blog post NorthStar traffic engineering
Tools and Testing
- RFC2544 testing and PDF
- RFC2544 testing reality
- RFC2544 ‘alternatives’ and more information on Y.1564 Ethernet service activation test methodology
- Power your metrics and alerting with a leading open-source monitoring solution
- Watch “Installing NetBox on Ubuntu 16 with Python 3” on YouTube (31 mins)
Automation and Configuration Management
- Ansible Tower (Ansible control node GUI), has an upstream version called AWX and it has been open sourced and the package on the github page and comment on Red Hats decision
- Intro to SaltStack – YouTube (1hr 15 mins)
- Watch “Getting Started with the ios_config Ansible Module” on YouTube (27 mins)
- Juniper Ansible Junos Configuration for EVPN/VXLAN
- Worth a read – automation viewpoint
- Watch “EDA – Event Driven Automation (Automation 5.0+) by Vincent Celindro” on YouTube (31 mins)
- Python Cheat Sheet (at the base of this post) via @mikedelgado
- Cumulus Linux and Ansible — now easier than ever
- IPython. Powerful interactive Python shell - easy command line for network engineers. YouTube video (7 mins)
- Ansible and Cisco IOS quick start guide
- The API is the New CLI: Fact or Fiction?
- Intro to Ansible with JUNOS
- Cumulus. Network automation best practices for DevOps
- The rules of automation slidedeck
- Using napalm-logs for event-driven network automation and orchestration
- Declarative and Imperative Automation Thinking
Blogs
- Blog. Network and Coder - loads of automation and coding articles
- Grey failures – video (7 mins)
VMware
- How to build a vSphere 6.5 Home Lab YouTube video (11mins)
Security
- Open Sourcing Pentest Tools and Academia with InfoSec DEF CON 25 - Hak5 2224 – YouTube video (30mins)
- Juniper SRX. OSPF over GRE over IPsec
Windows
- PowerShell for network engineers
- Windows for Linux nerds
