Washed Up With Posts.
Automation
- Network Automation 101 - Dmitry Teslya
- Motherstarter - A network data transformation tool to accelerate the adoption of network automation
- Nautobot-Lab a Network Source of Truth and Network Automation Platform which is a forked version of Netbox. Get up and running quickly using this docker container - GitHub repo
- Watch “Automation without Config Deployment” on YouTube - 22 mins
- Watch “Automation Frameworks: Ansible and Nornir” on YouTube - 1 hr 11 mins
- Watch “Data Formats: XML, JSON, and YAML - For Network Engineers” on YouTube - 23 mins
- Data Model Transformations in Network Automation Solutions - ipSpace.net blog
- _calvinr / Networking / automation_examples / juniper_automation_101 - GitLab repo
- Watch “Netbox as your Source of Truth for Ansible, Systems, and your Network - April 16, 2020” on YouTube - 1 hr
- Sample Network Automation Solutions - www.ipSpace.net
- Scrapli GitHub repo - scrapli – scrap-ec-li – is a python 3.6+ library focused on connecting to devices, specifically network devices - routers/switches/firewalls/etc. via Telnet or SSH
- 7 Best New Software Automation eBooks To Read In 2021 - BookAuthority
Certification and Careers
- Today I Passed the Juniper JNCIS-SP Exam. Some great infographics - neckercube.com - Jedadiah Casey
- JNCIE-DC remote lab exam resources - Rick Mur
- Free Introduction to Linux - Linux Foundation - Training
- Free Introduction to Kubernetes - Linux Foundation - Training
- Free Introduction to Cloud Infrastructure Technologies - Linux Foundation - Training
- Free Introduction to Jenkins - Linux Foundation -
- JNCIS-SP Genius topology – Digital Windows for EVE-NG
- JNCIA-Junos - FREE Study Resources
- The Attention Economy And The IT Talent Dearth — Ethan Banks
Cisco
- Meraki-CLI - Command Line Utility for the Meraki Dashboard - Packet Pushers
- CCDE – Next Generation Multicast – NG-MVPN – Daniels Networking Blog
Cloud
- Global Network Maps - because the ‘cloud’ is connected by cables under the sea and earth (with a bit of StarLink thrown in - see the ‘And Finally’ section below)!
- Google’s Dunant subsea cable is now ready for service - Google Cloud Blog
- Back by popular demand. Google Cloud products in 4 words or less - 2021 edition. Google Cloud Blog
- What is Azure Route Server - Preview? - Microsoft Docs
- Hands-On: Azure Route Server - ipSpace.net blog
- PacketFabric launches Cloud Router - Light Reading
- Cloud Grade Automation With Packer and Terraform
- Watch “AWS Basics for Beginners - Full Course” on YouTube - 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Virtual Networks and Subnets in AWS, Azure, and GCP - ipSpace.net blog
- Availability Zones and Regions in AWS, Azure and GCP - ipSpace.net blog
- Watch “Deploy vSRX Instances Using AWS CloudFormation” on YouTube - 14 mins
- How to use Cloud without losing sleep - Sudeep Chauhan
- Long List of Links to Looking Glass Sites - traceroute.org
Containers
- Docker Without Docker
- Network Policy Editor for Kubernetes
- From Docker Compose to Kubernetes with Podman - Enable Sysadmin
Data Centre and Open Networking
- Supporting Server Redundancy with NVIDIA EVPN Multihoming - NVIDIA Developer Blog
- SuzieQ on k8 - initial commit - Hyperbolic Hyposcaler Industries — What is it?
- Watch “netenglabs” SuzieQ playlist on YouTube - 45 mins
- Overall Data Center Costs – Perspectives from 2010 but by Mr AWS architect James Hamilton
Design
- Using Architectural Decision Records - ADR - with adr-tools – A nice guy’s view on
Devops
- Network Automation Ninja - VScode Remote Host Development
Failure
- Slack fingers AWS auto-scaling failure in January outage postmortem - The Register
- Deep dive into the Solorigate second-stage activation. From SUNBURST to TEARDROP and Raindrop - Microsoft Security
Fundamentals
- Watch “Any future for Network Engineers?” on YouTube - 34 mins
- DNS lookups! A simple DNS lookup tool
- A Practical Guide to (Correctly) Troubleshooting with Traceroute. Slidedeck PDF
- What is a vCPU and How Do You Calculate vCPU to CPU?
- Watch “Ethernet Briefings in April 1978 by Bob Metcalfe” on YouTube - 1 hr 52 mins
- vSphere ESXi Networking Guide - Fast Reroute
- Wireshark Cheat Sheet – Commands, Captures, Filters & Shortcuts PDF
- BGP notes for study and interview prep - Jonathan Steward
- LAG vs LACP: What’s the Difference?
- Coping with Control Plane Policing – Why ICMP Drops Happen – NWMichl Blog
- QUIC a general-purpose transport layer network research UHasselt Tutorial
IPv6
- Watch “DDoS Challenges in IPv6 environments” on YouTube - 37 mins
Juniper
- Navigating Juniper RPC returns using XPATH - saidvandeklundert.net
- Optics Rollouts Propel the 400G Era - Official Juniper Networks Blogs
- IMON - Junos Inline Monitoring. David Roy’s vNOG slidedeck
- Juniper To MikroTik – OSPF Commands – StubArea51.net
- Juniper to MikroTik – BGP commands – StubArea51.net
- networkfuntimes.com - Maximise Your JUNOS Network With MPLS, Part 1: Bandwidth Priorities, then Part 2: auto-bandwidth and Part 3: Container LSPs
- Watch “Automating Junos Using BASH Scripts” on YouTube - 8 mins
Labs
- Watch “containerlab introduction” on YouTube 3 mins
- Watch the above and keep an eye on the containerlab project website
- EVE-NG Labs Library
- Squid Proxy for GCP EVE-NG VMs – Tom Costello – KD9CPB
- Running IE 8/9/10/11/Edge Virtual machines from Microsoft under Linux via VirtualBox
- EVE-NG and GNS3 pre bulit Labs - netquirks
- Working with the Microsoft Visual Studio DevOps - Winter Update - Virtual Machine - Azure DevOps Hands-on-Labs
- Downloading the Microsoft DevOps Virtual Machine - VM Login as Sachin. All passwords are P2ssw0rd
- JNCIE-DC lab in EVE-NG tips and tricks - Rick Mur
- EVE-NG telnet list generator
- Marcel Wiget - honeycomb-crpd-mesh. Deploy Juniper cRPD containers at scale and meshed by three links each to build a topology that resembles honeycomb/hexagons. GitLab
- Terrible: IaC for QEMU/KVM. A bad name, not really terrible!
- Azure WAF Security Protection and Detection Lab - Microsoft Tech Community. Part 1 - Lab Setup
- EVE-NG: Create Windows Server 2019 VM - PeteNetLive
- Getting Nautobot Up and Running in the Lab - The NTC Mag. Forked version of NetBox
- If you want to try Nautobot and try with some of the new features they have an Always on Sandbox available with some data. Login : demo / Pwd : nautobot
Linux
- Watch “Linux Directories Explained in 100 Seconds” on YouTube - 2 mins 52 secs
- Watch “WSL2, Visual Studio Code, Windows 10, Ubuntu/Linux + more - Computer Stuff They Didn’t Teach You #19” on YouTube
- Transform your server into a Junos powered router with cRPD – IoSonoUnRouter and other associated posts:
- A Bash Template (cheat sheet) is Very Useful - by Stefanie Lai
- How To Set Up a Remote Desktop with X2Go on Ubuntu 20.04 - DigitalOcean
- XRDP - Multi Session Setup
- What’s tmux and How to Configure It - a Detailed Guide
- Paru - A New AUR Helper and Pacman Wrapper Based on Yay - It’s FOSS
- Sudo for sudo’d - CVE-2021-3156: Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in Sudo - Qualys Security Blog
- Firecracker: start a VM in less than a second
- DYFF A Diff Tool For YAML Files
- How To Install and Use the VMware Photon OS - Virtualization Review
- CentOS is gone—but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers - Ars Technica
- Elasticsearch and Kibana are now business risks
- How To Find Largest Top 10 Files and Directories On Linux / UNIX / BSD - nixCraft
- Nginx concepts I wish I knew years ago - DEV Community
- Linux Hardening Guide
Open Source
- FreeRTR - EVE-NG Lab Topology Repo
- Using freeRouter on Proxmox
Programmability
- Getting Started with VS Code - The NTC Mag
- Python IDE for beginners
- Schedule the boring stuff with Python
- Watch “Python Tutorial for Beginners - Learn Python in 5 Hours FULL COURSE” on YouTube - 5 hours
- Why (and How) Network Engineers Should Start #100DaysofCode - Carpe DMVPN
- Watch “Meet faasd. Look Ma’ No Kubernetes! - Alex Ellis, OpenFaaS Ltd” on YouTube - 10 mins
- Building a Golang Docker image — Bitfield Consulting
- Python Concurrency: The Tricky Bits
- Watch “52 weeks of python” on YouTube - many hours!
- Watch “Python 101 for Network Engineers” on YouTube
- RICH and Beautiful Text Formatting in a Terminal
Reference
- Nested Virtualization in Windows 10 Hyper-V - Redmondmag.com
SD-WAN
- Building your own SD-WAN with Envoy and Wireguard - networkop
- flexiWAN - Open Source SD-WAN & SASE, three flexiEdge instances for free to kick the tyres
Security
- Free Certificate for IIS with Let’s Encrypt - PeteNetLive
Service Provider
- What will happen when the routing table hits 1024k? - APNIC Blog
- BGP Optimal Route Reflection – Bryton Herdes – Network Engineer, JNCIE-SP #3023
- L2VPN: The Label Base and Offset, Explained! – NETWORK FUN-TIMES
- Netflix’s Cloud Edge Architecture
- How Important is BGP RPKI? - ipSpace.net blog
- Visualising BGP-LS Tables (Python, GoBGP, gRPC, NetworkX) – HB’s Professional Blog
- Download the newly published Juniper Day one on “DEPLOYING BGP RIB SHARDING AND UPDATE THREADING” - PDF
- Routeviews – University of Oregon Route Views Project
- ISP Column - January 2021 - BGP in 2020 - The BGP Table
- BGP RPKI - Instructions For Use
Tools and Testing
- Architecture Diagrams using Python
- Watch “Installing NetBox 10 minutes! on YouTube - 15 mins - nice short video that touches upon proxmox, containers (and nesting), docker compose and netbox
- SplitPING - symmetric Latency Checker
- TTL255 J2Live - Live Jinja2 Parser
- Peering Manager - is an open-source BGP management solution built with Python and Django. GitHub page
- NetBox Plugin config Officer
- YouTube video of the config officer - 41 mins
- Grafana- Flowcharting Plugin
- Network Latency Testing
- How-To: Install a Free License Key for ESXi - How-To Guides - Volico Wiki
- TopoLoGraph - OSPF visualization and analysis offline for network engineers
- Scapy or not, here I come! – The Art of Network Engineering. Scapy is a powerful interactive packet manipulation program.
- XPath online real-time tester, evaluator and generator for XML & HTML
- Espanso - Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust
- Watch “Installing NetBox v2.10” on YouTube - 22 mins
- Testing Distributed Systems - Curated list of resources on testing distributed systems
- Envoy Split Proxy
Wireless
- Watch “WN Video 024 - Mist AP12” on YouTube - 6 mins
- Watch “De-Mistify Mist Wireless” playlist on YouTube - 1hr 15 mins
And Finally
- Space Networking visualised - Satellite Tracker - filter by StarLink satellites to take a look at SWAN (SatelliteWAN or SpaceWAN ?)
- Font size is useless; let’s fix it tonsky.me
- Watch “How Does NASA Get Video From Mars? How fast is the Martian bandwidth?” on YouTube - 22 mins
- Virtual Colossus
- An Alternate AltaVista Search Engine History Lesson For Internet Nerds
- BOSCH Car Head Unit root!
- Watch “Don’t Use Excel Filters! Use This Incredible Excel Formula Instead …” on YouTube - 10 mins
- Is Computing A Right? - Packet Pushers