May the Tozinameran be with you!
Automation
- Watch “Extract the Source of Truth From Your Network With the Network Importer, Interop 2020” on YouTube - 25 mins
- Network Importer GitHub repo and PyPI page
- Juniper MIST Ansible Modules
- Automating the CLI Part 1 Using Scrapli & Cisco Genie to Collect Interface Data and Part 2 Building a Web Dashboard with Flask & Bootstrap
- How Ansible Configuration Parsing Made Me Pull My Hair Out - ipSpace.net blog
- Business without labour, Automation without workers — EtherealMind
- Nornir an “Introduction for others” - saidvandeklundert.net
- DataKnox/nornir_pyez - PyEZ’s Connection and Plugins for Nornir and documentation
- Watch “Automate Juniper Devices with Nornir and PyEZ - nornir_pyez - Junos DevOps” on YouTube - 23 mins
- Batfish - The What and the Why
- Watch “Infrastructure Orchestration & Automation UK Meetup November 2020” on YouTube
- My current toolkit - John Capobianco - Automate Your Network
- AWX – The Gateway Drug to Ansible Tower – A nice guy’s view on life
Certification and Careers
- How I Passed the AWS Advanced Networking Specialty Exam - neckercube.com: Jedadiah Casey
- CCNP ENCOR Study
- AWS to offer free cloud training to 29 million people - IT PRO
Cisco
- Watch “CPOC Walkthroughs” playlist on YouTube
- OPENVULN - Vulnerability reports for Cisco IOS, NX-OS and ACI
Cloud
- With the new Managed Grafana service AWS ups its open source game - ZDNet
- The command line is dead, long live the command line! AWS CloudShell – Command-Line Access to AWS Resources - AWS News Blog
- VPC Reachability Analyzer - AWS News Blog
- Use Amazon EC2 Mac Instances to Build & Test macOS, iOS, ipadOS, tvOS, and watchOS Apps - AWS News Blog
- The Ultimate Terraform Commands Cheatsheet - A Cloud Guru
- Deployment models for AWS Network Firewall
- AWS Network Firewall – New Managed Firewall Service in VPC
- Watch “Cloud 101 for Network Engineers” Part 1 and Part 2 on YouTube 6-8 mins each
Containers
- Docker Compose: a nice way to set up a dev environment
- VMWare Project Photon OS is an open source, minimal Linux container host that is optimized for cloud-native applications
- Scanning Docker Containers for Vulnerabilities
- You’re using docker-compose wrong
Data Centre and Open Networking
- Watch “VXLAN - Explained & Configuration!” on YouTube - 24 mins
- Automating EVPN VXLAN with BGP Unnumbered GitHub Repo and YouTube demo - 14 mins
- Watch “Inside The World’s Largest Data Center” on YouTube - 7 mins
- DENT Introduces Industry’s First End-to-End Networking Stack Designed for the Modern Distributed Enterprise Edge and Powered by Linux - DENT
- Exploring EVPN-VXLAN Overlay Architectures - Edge-Routed Bridging - Official Juniper Networks Blogs
- Switch comparison, including ASIC and packet buffer - isp-tech.ru
- Free Range Routing (FRR) - The Most Popular Network Router You’ve Never Heard Of
- Juniper Reference architecture for IP Fabric EVPN-VXLAN PDF
- Automated Cumulus CLOS - JulioPDX GitHub Repo
- DC. Part 17. High-available server cluster connected to DC fabric – karneliuk.com
Devops
- A list of the 28 most used CI/CD tools
- Network Infrastructure As Code With Ansible & Git – Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 – NWMichl Blog
- Watch “Run Different PowerShell Versions Side-By-Side with Docker” on YouTube - 21 mins
Failure
- Escalate This - Eyvonne Sharp unpacks her thoughts on the pressure to escalate
- The SolarWinds cyberattack: The hack, the victims, and what we know
- Dark Halo Leverages SolarWinds Compromise to Breach Organizations
- Google told BGP to forget its Euro-cloud – after first writing bad access control lists - The Register
- Summary of the Amazon Kinesis Event in the Northern Virginia US-EAST-1 Region
Fundamentals
- What is an IP address and a subnet mask, in simple terms? - Digital Citizen
- 10 Pieces of Advice for Network Engineers - Carpe DMVPN
- Welcome to The TCP/IP Guide!
- An introduction to three-phase power and PDUs
- ASICs at the Edge
- What Are Traceroutes and How Do They Work? - Obkio
- How to troubleshoot routing protocols session flaps – Part 1 – routingcraft
IPv6
- The Logic of Bad IPv6 Address Management - Blog
- IPv6 Council Annual Meeting 2020 – UK IPv6 Council
- UK IPv6 Council YouTube Channel
- IPv6 Security Best Practices – The Internet Protocol Blog
Juniper
- How I Fell Back in Love with Juniper - Data Knox
- Zero-Touch Provisioning for Juniper - Vincent Bernat
- Watch “PKI IPSec VPN Juniper SRX to SRX with Multiple IPSec SAs” on YouTube - 1 hr 16 mins
Labs
- JNCIE-DC lab in EVE-NG - Rick Mur
- Watch “How to install & use QEMU+KVM and virt-manager” on YouTube - 15 mins
- Build Your Virtual Lab Faster with My Network Simulation Tools - ipSpace.net blog
- Marcel Wiget - honeycomb-crpd-mesh - GitLab Repo
- Tweet from @EVE_NG_TEAM - Here we are :-) an SDWAN lab for beginners with book for EVE Pro and Community - Viptela Lab files on mega.nz
- sFlow: Docker DDoS testbed
- Home Network 2020 Rick Mur
Linux
- Watch “Unix for Normies?” on YouTube - 14 mins
- Download Google Drive Files using wget - by Anjan Chandra Paudel - Medium
- Quick and easy tool you can install to monitor network traffic and bandwidth in real-time. Network Automation Ninja
- Where do I go now that CentOS Linux is gone? Check our list – Ars Technica
- Review of my Fujitsu Stylistic V727 Laptop/Tablet. A nice guy’s view on life
- Running services like SSH, nginx, etc. on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL1) on boot – A nice guy’s view on life
- Home - Linux Master Class
- Introduction to BASH Scripting
Programmability
- Watch “52 weeks of python” playlist on YouTube - a lot of mins
Security
- Is Your Firewall Permitting and Denying the Correct Flows?
- Vulnerabilities CVE - OpenCVE
- WriteHat - Effortlessly generate beautiful pentest reports
- Watch “A New Attack Allows Access to any TCP/UDP service on a Machine behind NAT - NAT Slipstreaming” on YouTube - 20 mins
Service Provider
- What Exactly Happens after a Link Failure? - ipSpace.net blog
- Mazimise Your JUNOS Network With MPLS, PART 1: RSVP Bandwidth & Priorities - networkfuntimes.com
- JUNOS - Layer 2 Circuit - MPLS-TE - PSN-Tunnel Endpoint – DAN HEARTY
- Tweet from @nickrusso42518 I’ve documented the largest, most complex MPLS network I’ve ever built. Covers routing, QoS, mgmt, VPNs, multicast, and much more. 100% free professional whitepaper - PDF
- Alphabet delivers wireless Internet over light beams from 20km away - Ars Technica
- The Internet is Getting Safer - Fall 2020 RPKI Update
Tools and Testing
- Visualizing Network Topologies. Zero to Hero in Two Days - Habr
- Ethr is a cross platform network performance measurement tool
- How to Use Windows 10’s Package Manager, winget
- winstall - GUI for Windows Package Manager
- Introducing time.cloudflare.com
- Level3’s Filtergen – Tips and Tricks - adamkuj.net
- ISP AS-SET import filter generator
- WinFi - best free Wi-Fi analyzer for Windows 10
Wireless
- Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) - ni.com
- What is the MCS Index? - NetBeez
- MSC Index - Modulation and Coding Scheme index table
- Juniper MIST API resources
- Mist API Training
- Postman Library
- Example API Python Library
- SemFio Networks Lean Mist API videos
- Cisco Catalyst 9800 WLC - WiFi Ninjas - Podcasts & Blogs
- Juniper Mist - WiFi Ninjas - Podcasts & Blogs
- Watch “WiFi Ninjas - How to Design Wi-Fi for a 720,000 sq. ft Warehouse” on YouTube - 28 mins
- Watch “The Netflix Effect on Guest Wi-Fi - Jim Palmer - WLPC Phoenix 2019” on YouTube - 10 mins
- WI-FI client list and PCAPs
- Windows WLAN Client Monitor PowerShell Script
- Free Space Loss Diagrams
- EMANIM wave lab (ElectroMAgNetic waves in vacuum and In Matter) demo
- Szilágyi, András (2019): “EMANIM: Interactive visualization of electromagnetic waves”.
And Finally
- Watch “The Computer Chronicles - The Internet 1993” on YouTube - 26 mins
- Supporting Raspberry Pi’s industrial customers - Raspberry Pi
- Bike Shedding - the Law of Triviality