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Linux

  • Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes - bashtop
  • What Is the Mosh Shell or “Mobile Shell” and How Do You Use It?
  • ngrok - secure introspectable tunnels to localhost and a great use of this useful tool/service - easily exposing your local resources with ngrok and fwd by Roman Dodin
  • Building an XDP - eXpress Data Path - based BGP peering router
  • Watch Jon the Nice guys “Screencast 005: SSH Keys and Client Configuration” on YouTube - 1 hr 12 mins
  • ntopng 4.0: A Refreshed Look with Dark Themes! – ntop
  • Make JSON greppable. Watch “Gron Demo” on YouTube - 5 mins
  • Linux Kernel and Measuring network throughput. - Andree Toonk - Medium
  • tmuxidir is a tmux session workspace plugin for nvim and vim

Docker & Containers

Juniper

Certification and Careers

Cisco

Data Centre

  • Watch “EVPN Deep Dive - All EVPN Route Types explained by Orhan Ergun and Toni Pasanen” on YouTube - 1 hr 46 mins
  • Watch “Automating a full data center with Ansible” in EVE-NG on YouTube - a mammoth YouTube playlist - 16 hrs’ish!
  • Rebranded Ethernet Technology Consortium Unveils 800 Gigabit Ethernet
  • The Effect of Switch Port Count in Clos Topology
  • Mellanox Doubles Up Ethernet Bandwidth With Spectrum-3
  • Watch “Data Centre Interconnect (DCI) Design” on YouTube - playlist - 1 hr

Open Networking

  • Cisco goes SONiC on Cisco 8000 - Cisco Blogs
  • Welcome to Suzieq - A framework and application for network observability - Medium and the Suzieq github repo

Service Provider

Tools and Testing

  • Markmap is a combination of Markdown syntax and mindmap. Try Markmap
  • Network Telemetry for SNMP Devices - The NTC Mag
  • Draw the Net draws network diagrams dynamically from a text file describing the placement, layout and icons
  • Watch “Installing NetBox v2.8” on YouTube - 43 mins
  • Transceiver and Cable Self-qualification with Cumulus Linux – Cumulus Networks Knowledge Base
  • Windows system utilities to maximize productivity. Microsoft PowerToys
  • How to Monitor Your VPN Infrastructure with Netmiko, NTC-Templates, and a Time Series Database - The NTC Mag
  • Example VPN health monitoring dashboard on Grafana for ASA devices. ASA Telemetry Health Monitoring Guide
  • ASCIIFlow Infinity - draw in ASCII

Automation and Configuration Management

  • Online Template Designer for Automation - TD4A is a visual design aid for building and testing jinja2 templates. It will combine data in yaml format with a jinja2 template and render the output
  • Watch “iNOG::14v Automating Networks Using Salt, Without Running Proxy Minions” on YouTube
  • Watch “Infrastructure as Code Accelerates Enterprise DevOps” BrightTalk - 43 mins
  • Network Automation and Hammer of Thor - ipSpace.net blog
  • Business Without Labor, Automation Without Workers - Packet Pushers
  • Watch “Learn how to make Network Automation Simple with the Community” BrightTalk
  • IPvZero repos - nornir etc.
  • Ansible 101 by Jeff Geerling - YouTube streaming series - Jeff Geerling
  • Building BGP Route Reflector Configuration with Ansible & Jinja2 - ipSpace.net blog
  • Using Python to Create 12,000 Lines of Juniper SRX Config in 0.01 Seconds – NETWORK FUN-TIMES
  • Ansible for Networking - Part 4: Juniper JunOS - YetiOps
  • Netpalm is a ReST API into your dusty old network devices
  • Terraform an HA-VPN between GCP and Cisco - Overlaid
  • Watch “IMPORTANT: You have FREE access to my Automation Lab Environment!” IPvZero on YouTube - 16 mins
  • What Is Closed-Loop Automation? - The Networking Nerd
  • Watch “CDP Neighbor - Structured Vs Unstructured Data.” on YouTube - 16 mins
  • Network Ready for Use - Test Automation - Does the actual operating states of the network match the expected outcomes based on the design? - GitHub repo and watch on YouTube - 1 hr 55 mins
  • Scrapli - PyPI - is a python library focused on connecting to network devices - the name scrapli is just “scrape cli”
  • Watch “Practical ways to get started on automating your network” on YouTube - 40 mins

Programmability

  • Watch “Learn Git In 15 Minutes” on YouTube - 16 mins!
  • Watch “Learn Python - Full Course for Beginners Tutorial” on YouTube - 4 hrs 26 mins
  • Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet
  • Watch “Best Programming Languages For Beginners In 2020” on YouTube - 7 mins
  • GitHub - mathialo/bython: Python with braces. Because python is awesome, but whitespace is awful - Bython is a Python preprosessor which translates curly brackets into indentation

Fundamentals

  • Why Are There Different VPN Protocols and How Do They Differ? - DZone Security
  • OSPF SUMMARY - Mom, Network Engineer, Juniper Ambassador
  • NGINX as an HTTP Load Balancer DevCentral
  • Timers, Elections and Defaults for multiple protocols- netquirks

Wireless

IPv6

  • The world in which IPv6 was a good design - apenwarr - a history lessson

Dev-Ops

  • Watch “DevOps on WSL” on YouTube - 26 mins

SD-WAN

Security

  • Watch “HOME LAB FIREWALL SETUP - Teaching Kids Networking, Information Technology, and Juniper” on YouTube - 18 mins
  • Poorly Secured Docker Image Comes Under Rapid Attack - Threatpost
  • Print-My-Shell - Python script wrote to automate the process of generating various reverse shells

Cloud

Labs

Failure

  • Cloudflare outage caused by techie pulling out the wrong cables - The Register

And Finally

  • Linux Dynamic Wallpaper
  • Raspberry Pi Cluster Episode 1 - Introduction to Clusters - Jeff Geerling
  • Ultimate Docker Home Server Tutorial with Traefik 2, LetsEncrypt, and OAuth
  • Watch “Can you play Minecraft on a Cisco Switch?” on YouTube - 4 mins
  • Multiverse - Multiverse enables cloud architects and engineers to connect and orchestrate multiple multi-cloud infrastructures in minutes ;-)
  • Watch “The Earth in Minecraft, 1:1 scale …for the first time.” on YouTube - 13 mins
  • Someone’s built the entire Earth in Minecraft - to scale - Eurogamer
  • Watch “Keeping the Network Up and Running During the COVID-19 Era (A Virtual Panel with Networking Experts)” on YouTube including PaulClarkeJNCIP