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Automation
- Running Network Automation Tools in a Container – ipSpace.net blog
- Install Python 3.9 on Raspberry Pi OS or Debian 10 - for Ansible or other uses – Jeff Geerling
- Git as a source of truth for network automation
- Even Simple Data Models Are a Huge Win – ipSpace.net blog
- Jerikan+Ansible: a configuration management system for networks
Certification and Careers
- Watch “AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Certification Course - Pass the Exam!” on YouTube – 13 hrs and 25 mins
Cloud
- Tweet from @ERNESTOSALASG My colleagues and I have been working on releasing easy-to-consume content about AWS Networking. Here’s the first batch, fresh from the oven. More to come soon: Network Firewall Ref. Arch. PDF and Hybrid DNS Resolution Ref. Arch. PDF
- Watch “Testing out the Ethernet Switch of the Planet! ZeroTier ft. MikroTik!” on YouTube – 13 mins
- Best practices for adopting and designing IPv6-based networks on AWS PDF
- Google Cloud Networking overview – Google Cloud Blog
Containers
- Automatically reduce Docker container size using DockerSlim – Slim.AI
Data Centre and Open Networking
- Deploy a Data Center Fabric with APSTRA and JUNOS - PDF
- Migrating from fabricpath to EVPN/VxLAN – StubArea51.net
- Watch “EVPN & VXLAN course” on YouTube – 1 hr 5 mins
- EVPN/VXLAN Complexity – ipSpace.net blog
- Tweet thread from @KWF One of my nice friends at henet gave me a dead 100G-LR4 optic to tear apart for your entertainment, so… let’s get entertained!
Design
- Is Disaggregation Going to Be Cord Cutting for the Enterprise? – The Networking Nerd
Devops
- Declarative Cloud Infrastructure Management with Terraform – Linode
Failure
- AWS us-east-1 outage ‘postmortem’ postmortem
- Why Does Internet Keep Breaking? – ipSpace.net blog
Fundamentals
- Watch “How TCP Sequence Numbers Work - TCP Deep Dive - Hands-On Case Study” on YouTube – 16 mins
- ICMP Redirects - How Data Plane Traffic Can Become Control Plane Traffic – Christopher Hart - IT Adventures
- Watch “WiFi’s Hidden __ Problem - Computerphile” on YouTube – 12 mins
- Understanding Control Plane Packet Loss due to CoPP – Christopher Hart - IT Adventures
- Utilizing BGP Communities for traffic steering – part 1: Firewalls – StubArea51.net
- A Complete Beginner’s Guide to Subnetting – NETWORK FUN-TIMES
Juniper
- Juliopdx’s Journey Learning about Juniper Junos
- Watch “Automating Junos with Terraform” on YouTube – 40 mins
- How To Read A Junos Class-Of-Service Configuration – NETWORK FUN-TIMES
Labs
- Mess with dns by Julia Evans
- Network Modeling: Segmented Lab access with Containerlab and ZeroTier – StubArea51.net
- Watch “Containerlab - running networking labs with Docker UX” on YouTube – 1 hr 12 mins
- EVE-NG Cloud NAT
- Creating BGP Multipath Lab with netsim-tools – ipSpace.net blog
Linux
- 10 Cool Command Line Apps for Ubuntu – OMG! Ubuntu!
- Basic Linux Networking tips and tricks. AboutNetworks.net. Part-1: ip and nmcli commands, Part-2: the mtr command, Part-3: ss and netstat commands, Part-4: curl command and Part-5: tcpdump
Programmability
- Advanced Visual Studio Code for Python Developers – Real Python
- Programming Sucks
- Watch “Implementing a VLAN range string using python groupby and enumerate” on YouTube - 11 mins
Reference
Service Provider
- Ironing out the BGP Ruffles with Ivan Pepelnjak – Podcast - Last Week in AWS
- BGP Performance testing with filtering
- ISP Design Guide: Separation of network functions – introduction and overview – StubArea51.net
- BGP Performance Six Part series. Starting with Part-1: Comparing Open Source BGP Stacks
Tools and Testing
- Diagrams - Diagram as Code
- Draw The Net: Enterprise NTP
- 33 stats that shows why observability is critical to cloud native apps
- SMBeagle is a SMB fileshare auditing tool
- Toxiproxy is a framework for simulating network conditions
And Finally
- How can I set up Windows 11 to use a local account? 3 ways to bypass a Microsoft login – The Big Tech Question
- A plea for lean software from 1995 – PDF