The beast from the east causes a pile up of links.
Linux
- Cumulus - getting started with Linux, Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
- DNOS - Tweet from @spuluka
Next level of network hardware disaggregation is with the Network Operating system. @ATT is moving DNOS to the Linux foundation. Imagine a common Linux based NOS where any company can bolt on Apps for particular network services. Check out the white paper PDF
- arthepsy/ssh-audit: SSH server auditing (banner, key exchange, encryption, mac, compression, compatibility, security, etc)
Docker & Containers
- Understanding kubernetes networking: pods
- What is K8S? Its kubernetes! Production-Grade Container Orchestration.
- Getting started with kubernetes using Ansible and Terraform
Labs
- EVE-NG Pro is here. Juniper Ingenious Champion Christian Scholz gives us a preview
- Watch “EVE-NG setting up a linux VM” on YouTube 17 mins
Security
- OPNsense(R) - Open Source Firewall - High-end Security Made Easy
- And a github repo to try OPNsense - OPNsense-starterkit
- Brief(ish) explanation of how https works. Or if pigeons are your thing!
- Get a step-by-step example on how to configure, deploy and secure an enterprise network using Junos devices in this Network Configuration Example PDF “Software-Defined Secure Networks (SDSN) for Juniper Networks Devices”
- 14,000 Incidents: a 2017 Routing Security Year in Review
Certification and Careers
- Day One: Advanced Junos CoS Troubleshooting Cookbook
- CCIE security post mortem!
- Taking the Certified Kubernetes Administrator Exam
- Helpful Mnemonic Devices for Networking
- How TCP Works - MTU vs MSS - YouTube video 7 mins
- Cisco R&S CCIE tech seminars
- Great free set of CCIE R&S flash cards. CCIE Flash Card Deck for R&S v5.1. Kindly made available by the creator @Wax_Trax
- Amazon is conducting a AWS virtual training event for free
- My CCIE Journey - Bruno Wollmann on Networking
- CCIE Security – Why and How
- JNCIA Junos Flashcards - Quizlet
Juniper
- Nice central repository of configuration examples
- Two Day One books to assist with migrating from Cisco ASA and Catalyst devices
- JUNOS: Chassis Clusters – A Beginners Guide to Juniper SRX High Availability – NETWORK FUN-TIMES
- Network Automation Design & Architecture Center
- Create your own Telemetry Sensor in Junos – marcelwiget
- Vagrant Hack for Initial Config of a Junos Virtual Device – Networker and Coder
- Great Juniper Day One book: Automating Junos with Ansible
- Juniper Advancing Disaggregation Through P4 Runtime (P4 Runtime is a silicon-independent and protocol-independent API that can be autogenerated from an unambiguous definition of a packet processing pipeline in P4!!)
- Really great set of hidden nuggets - You don’t know Junos – Behind the Socket
- Everything you want to know about Ansible for the Junos OS in this deep dive developer guide Ansible for Junos OS Developer Guide PDF
- MX as an Advanced Broadband Network Gateway - LinkedIn post
- Inject routes with multiple next-hops in Junos – marcelwiget
Cisco
- Tweet from @Peter_Paluch
On a Nexus 7K, whenever suspecting a packet loss inside the box during forwarding, three commands are your friends: “test/show forwarding inconsistency”, “show module internal exceptionlog” and “show hardware internal error”. They can point out hidden reasons for packet drops.
- Cisco Live Europe 2018 - smitmartijn/cleur-2018 Links to the cleur-2018 PDF presentations of the breakout sessions
- Cisco DevNet Learning Labs Network Basics
Data Centre & Whitebox
- Juniper Load Balancing EVPN-VXLAN PDF
- This repository provides Ansible playbook and templates to deploy a fully L3 fabric based on BGP (using FreeRangeRouting) on the free test Lab “Cumulus In The Cloud” platform
- ipspace.net posts - BGP in EVPN-Based Data Center Fabrics and Using BGP in a Data Center Leaf-and-Spine Fabric
- L3 routing to the hypervisor with BGP
- Layer 3 routing on Cumulus Linux MLAG – /techblog
- Is it Time to Upgrade to VXLAN? Mellanox Technologies Blog
- Five Functional Facts about VXLAN - packetmischief.ca
- Learn how EVPN can help leverage the Linux networking model in the modern data center - Cumulus
- Your guide to selecting pluggable transceiver modules - Cumulus Networks Blog
- Dropbox saved almost $75 million over two years by building its own tech infrastructure – GeekWire
- Juniper QFX10K - EVPN-VXLAN MAC Learning Verification Single-Homed Endpoint – Dan Hearty
- FRRouting on Juniper’s Advanced Forwarding Interface
Routing
- Five Functional Facts About OSPF - packetmischief.ca
Switching
- Drilling Down Into Ethernet Switch Trends
Service Provider
- Juniper and CSPF
- Old but good intro on the fundamentals of EVPN
- Cumulus Networks brings its open source software stack to Voyager, a piece of hardware developed for the Open Optical Packet Transport project. YouTube video 5 mins
- BGP Flowspec redirect with ExaBGP
- Cumulus Networks Announces Early Access of Cumulus Linux for Voyager with ADVA
- Ethernet sales growing, but routing’s been routed by software
- Over-Subscription for “The Less Informed” - I Don’t Know Squat About Networking
- ADVA Optical Networking SE: Ensemble chosen as key component of Fujitsu’s managed networks solution
Tools and Testing
- Juniper Event Driven Infrastructure slide deck PDF. How to pull Juniper Networks telemetry and data into an open source message bus for network monitoring and operations.
- OpenConfig and gRPC Junos Telemetry Interface
- PowerShell comes to MacOS and Linux. Oh and Windows too. PowerShell Core 6.0
- Want to spin up a free Linux shell environment in seconds and have a Google account? Click here. Want to learn more first - read this
- eNMS (Beta) is a network visualization, inventory and automation web platform. Reddit thread. You can find a demo of eNMS here!
- Don’t Delete PCAP Files - Trim Them! TrimPCAP open source tool
- BGP_Visualize - a Python Module to beautifully visualize the connections between BGP Autonomous Systems
- A Better Way to Document your Network Topology than Visio - Forward Networks
- Ruru: real-time TCP latency monitoring - GitHub page
- Netshot - Configuration and Compliance Management Software
- Netflow, Sampling-Interval and the Mythical Internet Packet Size IOS XR Cloud Scale Networking @xrdocs
- Unit Testing Junos with JSNAPy
Automation and Configuration Management
- Ansible - Accelerate Network Automation with Aggregate Resources
- Latest version (2.0.0) and major re-write of the Juniper Junos Ansible role
- Juniper and RedHat “Automation: Key Enabler of IT Modernization and Cybersecurity” YouTube video - 1hr
- Ansible, Chef, Puppet or Salt? Which One Should I Use?
- DENOG9 descriptions and slide-decks
- Great set of blog posts. “How to automate your network using Ansible and NAPALM”. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4. Githib repo of example playbooks here.
- Exploding Juniper Devices with NAPALM – Basim Aly
- What does ‘Infrastructure as Code’ actually mean?
- To automate your DevOps processes, start with monitoring
- StackStorm (aka “IFTTT for Ops”) - Github repo
- Use YANG Data Models to Configure Network Device with Ansible
- Getting started with Juniper Automation
- Hey, I can DevOPS my Network too! - Intro
- Why Network Automation Isn’t a Job Killer
- DevOps: The Evolution of Applications - OzNetNerd
- Watch “Room 101 Sunday Mar. 11 - SCaLE 16x” on YouTube Netdevops enviroments with vagrant watch from the 5hr 13mins mark!
- Should You Build or Buy an Automation Solution? « ipSpace.net by @ioshints
- A template structure for Ansible projects, adhering to best practices
- Linux Journal four part Ansible series. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4
- How to Set Up a Local Linux Environment with Vagrant
- Ansible Is Much Easier When You Know These Tricks - IOD: tech.content
- Big Red Button for Network Automation « ipSpace.net by @ioshints
- Ansible v.s. Salt (SaltStack) v.s. StackStorm – Anthony Shaw – Medium
- The Simplest Way to Learn SaltStack – Tim White – Medium
- imbal/safeyaml: SafeYAML: A linter for YAML-favoured JSON (& autoformatting too!)
- Should I Ansible? Reddit thread
- Automation Win: MPLS/VPN Service Deployment « ipSpace.net by @ioshints
- How To Code in Python: A DigitalOcean eBook
- napalm-automation/napalm-logs: Cross-vendor normalisation for network syslog messages, following the OpenConfig and IETF YANG models
- Network-Automation with Salt, NAPALM and Kubernetes – blog.simonmetzger.de – networking, automation, virtualization and more
VMware
SDN
- Implementing Carrier Services in OpenFlow. Xantaro blog post
- OpenStack SDN - OpenContrail With BGP VPN
Cloud
- Shodan is the world’s first search engine for Internet-connected devices.
Intent or Intuitive Networking
- BGP Route Selection: a Failure of Intent-Based Networking « ipSpace.net by @ioshints
- Intentional Infrastructure
Failure
- Fat fingers strike again - minimize the number of fat-finger incidents
And finally
- Running Online Services at Riot: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 - Riot Games Engineering
- Which network vendor’s syntax you like and hate the most? Reddit post
- Tech field Day 17 presentations – Extreme Networks, Thousand Eyes, Juniper, VMware, Mellanox, Cumulus, Ixia and Cisco
If you only watch one then this is my pick: Cumulus overview and NetQ - 38 mins
- Alexa HAL - LOL :-D YouTube video - 1 min