Keep your cloud close to home sweet home
Linux
- This nicely follows AWS:Invent and the Outpost announcement - see below - Amazon, Cumulus Networks and others back DENT - open switching/edge for the Enterprise - wonder where this will lead?
- Linux Foundation pitches DENT to simplify enterprise edge networks - SiliconANGLE
- Bringing the Unix Philosophy to the 21st Century - Brazil’s Blog
- VIM JPG for people who don’t want to use it but have to - JPEG
- How to Watch TCP and UDP Ports in Real-time
- Remote access to a device behind NAT/Firewall – Some random thoughts
- 40 Most Useful Linux ifconfig Commands for Network Admins
- How to configure a VLAN in Linux - Enable Sysadmin
- Basic Linux Networking tips and tricks part 1: the ip and nmcli commands and part 2: the mtr command - AboutNetworks.net
- How to Use curl to Download Files From the Linux Command Line
- Calculating IPv6 Subnets in Linux - Linux.com
- How do I create my own Certificate Authority
Docker & Containers
- How To Remove Docker Containers, Images, Volumes, and Networks
- A visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments
- Pluralsight Course Launched! Getting Started with HashiCorp Nomad - DiscoPosse.com
- Day One - Building Containers with Docker and the cSRX - Juniper Networks
- Day One - Building Containers with Kubernetes and Contrail - Juniper Networks
Labs
- Juniper Virtual Labs - Ethernet-switching
- Bored of 75+ DevNet Sandboxes? Try NINE New Ones! - Cisco Blogs
- Building a HashiCorp Nomad Cluster Lab using Vagrant and VirtualBox - DiscoPosse.com
Fundamentals
- Basic IPv6 Troubleshooting Commands - IPv6 Rosetta Stone 2019 – The Internet Protocol Blog
- IP Fragmentation in Detail - Packet Pushers
Certification and Careers
- AWS certified? - get yourself in the The unofficial AWS hall of Fame
- DevNet Certifications – How To Prepare for the Service Provider Automation and Programmability Exam - Cisco Blogs
- Get your work recognized - write a brag document - Julia Evans
- My JNCIE-SP Exam Experience – NETWORK FUN-TIMES
- The FREE AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Study Course - 275+ Videos - DEV Community
- How I earned all 3 AWS Associate certifications with one year of work experience
Juniper
- A Beginner’s Guide To Multicast, On Juniper Routers. PART 1: The Theory – NETWORK FUN-TIMES
- Watch “Networking Field Day Exclusive at Juniper NXTWORK 2019” on YouTube - playlist
- Watch “SD-LAN 15 Features in 15 Minutes” on YouTube - 15 min playlist!
- How to Upgrade a Four-Member QFX Series VCF - TechLibrary - Juniper Networks
- MPLS vs. VXLAN encapsulation – Mom, Network Engineer, Juniper Ambassador
- Juniper Interface-Range: A Use Case – Consent Factory
- Juniper Networks SD-Branch - Tech Field Day
- Junos VRRP with Tracking - Fryguy’s Blog
Cisco
- Some of our best engineers recently grouped together to write this new CiscoACI troubleshooting book - PDF
- Juniper Lessons Learned Compilation – Consent Factory
- Deploying CSR 1000v with Cisco SDWAN – Route By The Script
- Configuring Cisco Security with Amazon VPC Ingress Routing - Cisco Blogs
- List in Translation - An ACI Migration Study…Just for Fun! - The Cisco Learning Network
Data Centre & Whitebox
- EVPN Route Targets, Route Distinguishers, and VXLAN Network IDs - ipSpace.net blog
- Choosing an EVPN underlay routing protocol - Cumulus Networks engineering blog
- The EVPN Dilemma - ipSpace.net blog
- Campus Architecture Solution Guide - Cumulus Networks Guides
- BGP as High-Availability Protocol
Service Provider
- RSVP reservation styles – Mom, Network Engineer, Juniper Ambassador
- How to build and market IPv6-only services - APNIC Blog
- Segment Routing – What You Need To Know - J-Net Community
- LDP vs. RSVP – Mom, Network Engineer, Juniper Ambassador
- The first Post – Link Protection Vs. Fast Reroute – Mom, Network Engineer, Juniper Ambassador
- Everyday Practical BGP - PDF
- Search in PeeringDB - Chrome plugin
- Introducing Oracle Internet Intelligence IXP Filter Check, a New Route Analysis Tool for Internet Exchanges - Oracle Cloud Security Blog
Tools and Testing
- PerculiarLog - lightweight log filtering tool supporting regular expressions and instant as-you-type results
- 17 Tips for Creating Better Network Diagrams
- Migrating from MRTG/RRD/CGI to Grafana/InfluxDB/Telegraf on Docker containers for Enterprise Network Performance Monitoring with SNMP – Part 1 – The Mythryll Log
- NIPAP - the best open source IP address management in the known universe - I perhaps think NetBox is though
- Princeton IoT Inspector - Automatically discovers IoT devices and analyzes their network traffic
- Browser Preview - Visual Studio Marketplace
- Microsoft Terminal - The new Windows Terminal, and the original Windows console host - all in the same place!
- rpki validation tools - Ansible roles for deploying RPKI validators on Ubuntu
Automation and Configuration Management
- Automation Solution - Data Center Fabric with Tenant Connectivity - ipSpace.net blog - sjhloco GitHub repo
- 7 considerations when buying network-automation tools - Network World
- A Hands-on Guide to Multi-Tiered Firewall Changes with Ansible and Batfish - Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
- Ansible vs Nornir - Speed Challenge
- Terraform + Ansible + Docker Swarm boilerplate equals DevOps on Fire
- Run Ansible Tower or AWX in Kubernetes or OpenShift with the Tower Operator - Jeff Geerling
- Automation Principles - Declarative and Imperative - The NTC Mag
- Watch “Automating Network Configurations with Pure Python” on YouTube - 21 mins
- A CI/CD solution in under 10 minutes, using Terraform & Ansible on GCP
- Multi-part blog on a how to lay things out in the Ansible file system Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4
SD-WAN
- Understanding TLOCs With Cisco SD-WAN - Carpe DMVPN
- Watch “Cisco SDWAN Solution Overview” on YouTube - 11 mins
Cloud
- AWS Outposts Now Available – Order Yours Today! - AWS News Blog
- AWS Outposts by the Numbers - A Far-Too-Deep Dive Into Pricing
- The Top Five AWS Re:Invent 2019 Announcements That Impact Your Enterprise Today
- AWS re:Invent Breakout Sessions - a lot of videos!
How long is it before AWS (and other cloud providers) create a router, campus switch (see DENT above) and AP that leverage’s cloud management and AI for the enterprise like Mist/Meraki – and couple this up with this local cloud-in-a-rack (AWS OutPost - see above or Azure Stack) and your existing cloud based services? And drop ship this enterprise kit same day from fulfillment warehouses for new kit and replacements? As long as the delivery man doesn’t throw it over the company fence or leave it in the skip when no one is in ;-)
- You Still Need a Networking Engineer for a Successful Cloud Deployment - ipSpace.net blog
- AWS Transit Gateway Examined - Caylent
- GCP command-line cheatsheet - ITNEXT
- GCP Flowcharts - Missives about mostly GCP related things
- Azure Speed Test 2.0 - Measuring the latency from your web browser to the Blob Storage Service in each of the Microsoft Azure Data Centers
- CloudPing.info - Estimate the latency from your browser to each AWS™ region
- GCP ping - Measure your latency to GCP regions
- AWS Game Day – Unicorn Rentals – Kapua
- Cloud infrastructure isn’t created equal - many factors affect network performance to, from different providers
- Stretched Layer-2 Subnets in Azure - ipSpace.net blog
Wireless
- Cisco Embedded Wireless Controller on Catalyst Access Points - WifiReference.com
- inSSIDer 5.1 Improves Real-Time Packet Analytics – MetaGeek Blog
- Checking Out Juniper NXTWORK 2019 with Tech Field Day – WirelessNerd
- @PaulClarkeJNCIP checks out the new AI Driven Network using MIST wireless and wired assurance with a little bit of help from Marvis
Failure
- Disaster Recovery Test Faking: Another Use Case for Stretched VLANs - ipSpace.net blog
- Resilience Engineering: Holy Grail of Business Continuity - Insight for the Connected Enterprise
- Troy Hunt: Data Enrichment, People Data Labs and Another 622M Email Addresses
- 1.2 Billion Records Found Exposed Online in a Single Server
Security
- Tweet from @chrisdoman. New blog - China’s Great Cannon deployed again to perform DDoS attacks against a forum used to organise Hong Kong protests. PDF if you need to read the screenshots
And Finally
- Oracle Shows 1060 Raspberry Pi Supercomputer at Oracle OpenWorld 2019