Now where is that idiots guide I bought in 1999?
Linux
- Nice set of David Bombal videos on YouTube titled “Linux for Network Engineers: You need to learn Linux!” 6 videos at approx. 5 mins each
- A vim tutorial and primer
- Route-based IPsec VPN on Linux with StrongSwan. This includes a comparative section with a Juniper vSRX example
- Deprecated Linux networking commands and their replacements
Docker & Containers
- Troubleshooting your Docker Swarm container network with Host Pack
Riverbed
- Riverbed troubleshooting books, one user made Word doc and one official PDF
Labs
- Introducing Cumulus in the Cloud a great way to try and drive a Cumulus DC spine and leaf with NetQ setup with no real effort or try it out the harder way by using the Cumulus github page, EVE-NG and my post here :-)
Certification and Careers
- JNCIE-DC preperation experience
Cisco
- Tech seminars
- Knowledge network webinars schedule with some recently archived
Data Centre & Whitebox
- Cumulus understanding NetQ fabic validation
- Cumulus: lots of videos on Linux networking, automation and Juniper-Cisco vs Linux networking
- Anyone for a D-Link switch in your data centre? D-Link partner with Pluribus for DC whitebox switching
Service Provider
- Juniper 200G DWDM Voodoo card (retro gamers - no not that sort!) in a Juniper QFX10000; a detailed field trial
- 100G DWDM interop lab
- Juniper RSVP-TE Pop&Go. Using a shared MPLS forwarding plane it couples the rich feature benefits of the RSVP-TE control plane with the simplicity of the Segment Routing MPLS forwarding plane
- Improving BGP Convergence without Tweaking BGP Timers
Tools and Testing
- mycli. MySQL/MariaDB mysql client with auto-completion and syntax highlighting
- IDE / Code editor, MS VS Code. Very useful with plugins for Junos/IOS/Ansible etc. to make configs more readable, free and multi platform
Automation and Configuration Management
- Python exercises
- Event-driven network automation and orchestration slide deck
- Netmiko a multi-vendor library to simplify Paramiko SSH connections to network devices and its github page
- Ansbile and NAPALM samples on github
Blogs
- Many useful posts. OPSF walk throughs, Ansible, Cisco labs etc. Oznetnerd
VMware
- New e-learning modules on VMware
AWS
- Networking multiple enviroments
Cloud
- Arista Networks has announced the vEOS Router a virtual router to run in Public Clouds
Intent or Intuitive Networking
- Automating Network Intent with Apstra at NFD16 (part 1)
Failure
- Redundancy Does Not Result in Resiliency ipspace blog post