Long time no post, so some links may be a bit luke warm!
Automation
- Getting Started with Python Network Libraries for Network Engineers - Part 1 - The NTC Mag
- Free IaC eBook PDF
- Free IaC video Series
- Network Automation Course - Network Configuration with Scrapli
- Introduction to Pulumi for Infrastructure as Code Deployments - Packet Pushers
- Manual Work is a Bug - ACM Queue
- Python for Network Engineers - PPT download
- Do a Cleanup Before Automating Your Network - ipSpace.net blog
- Building a network configuration templating pattern
- Python for network engineers — Python for network engineers 1.0 documentation
- From @nwkautomaniac demonstration of basic netcad and netcam commands demo 1 and demo 2 - YouTube
Certification and Careers
- Packet Pushers - great set of playLists on Python, Ansible, Kubernetes and many more - YouTube
- JNCIS/JNCIP SP resources - Mom, Network Engineer, Juniper Ambassador
- 10 Pros Answer: What I Wish I’d Known Before Becoming a Network Engineer
Cisco
- TAC Tales - Saving Configuration is for Quitters - Christopher Hart
- MPLS LSP Walkthrough – With IGP Caveat – Nick Carlton
Cloud
- Under the sea: Building Google’s fiber optic network - Google Cloud Blog
- Welcome to dave.dev - Cloud Ops with Grafana Cloud
- Public Cloud Services Comparison - A simple cloud comparison chart of all the cloud services offered by the major public cloud vendors globally
- Why cloud is a kludge of complexity - Uptime Institute Blog
- Azure Virtual DC Tour
- Google Cloud Networking overview - Google Cloud Blog
- AWS CIDR Finder
- Chaos Engineering in Azure – SQLServerCentral
- Cloud Saga. AWS Security Event Simulator
- Watch “Cloud Engineering For The Network Pro” playlist on YouTube
- Watch “AWS Simple Fun Part 1: Create VPC, Subnets, CSR, and SSH from AWS CSR to AWS CSR” on YouTube - 23 mins
- SubTel Submarine Cable Map - Submarine Telecoms Forum
- Watch “Shortcut: How I Learned Terraform” on YouTube - 7 mins
- AZ-CheatSheet: Become an expert in Azure Landing Zones – Cloud Architect
- AZLandingZones.mmap Interactive Cheat Sheet
- CloudGraph - The GraphQL API for AWS, Azure, GCP, and K8s
Containers
- Exploring Default Docker Networking Part 1 - Cisco Blogs
- Watch “Kubernetes Tutorial for Beginners” on YouTube - full course in 4 Hours
- VMIFY - Container to Cloud in Seconds
- Kubetools - A Curated List of Kubernetes Tools - kubetools
- Watch “Kubernetes: The Documentary” on YouTube, Part 1 and Part 2
- Containers 101: attach vs. exec – what’s the difference?
Data Centre and Open Networking
- Whoop Dee Doo for my SuzieQ! - The Gratuitous Arp
- RtBrick More Than Doubles Number of Subscribers That Can be Serviced by a single open switch
- Watch “Intro To EVPN With Tony Bourke” playlist on YouTube
- The Impact of Jumbo MTU on Data Center Switches - ipSpace.net blog
- Arista BGP EVPN - Overview and Concepts - overlaid.et
Design
- Corporate Network Segmentation Cheatsheet
- Watch “UKNOF45 - What Does A Good Design Look Like?” on YouTube - 31 mins
Failure
- Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022
- BGP security and confirmation biases
Fundamentals
- Practical Networking .net – posts and classes
- OSI Model – Practical Networking .net
- Networking Chips versus GPUs/CPUs
- A Practical Guide to Correctly Troubleshooting with Traceroute PDF
- AWS Migration Checklist For Startups
- How to properly interpret a traceroute or MTR - APNIC Blog
- Watch “Shortcut: Traditional vs Cloud Networking” on YouTube - 8 mins
- BITAG - Latency Explained
Intent Based Networking
- Juniper Apstra. Part I - Introducing a true IBNS and Part II - Building a data center rack - The ASCII Construct
IPv6
- Excellent 60+ page ‘IPv6 Technical Guide’ by @timchown PDF
- You Thought There Was No NAT for IPv6, But NAT Still Exists
- IPv6 Duplicate Address Detection – The Internet Protocol Blog
- CellStream - IPv6 Cheat Sheet
- Watch ““Fanboy” series - IPv6 and NATs” on YouTube - 4 mins
- FE80::1 is a Perfectly Valid IPv6 Default Gateway Address
Juniper
- Junos getting started YouTube playlist
- Juniper/junos-vsrx - Terraform Registry
- Juniper “Hidden” Commands - gbe0.com
- Watch “cRPD Docker Compose” on YouTube 17 mins
- Junos Part I - the basics. Part II - BGP and BGP Unnumbered - The ASCII Construct
- Configure TCP Authentication Option TCP-AO - Junos OS - Juniper Networks
- Monitoring Juniper Mist wireless network with Zabbix
Labs
- SR Linux Multi Vendor EVPN Lab
- Multi-vendor EVPN VXLAN setup with Containerlab - The ASCII Construct
- External Lab Access With Ngrok and Containerlab - Packet Pushers
- Watch “Building a Juniper EVE-NG Lab-Environment for daily usage. Part 1/3, Part 2/3 and Part 3/3 on YouTube approx 4 hrs 20 mins
- sFlow: Real-time telemetry from a 5 stage Clos fabric
- BGP Challenge Lab
- Juniper vQFX and Containerlab - The ASCII Construct
- Sample Lab: RSVP TE on Junos - ipSpace.net blog
- Multipoint Redistribution and SR Linux
- Learn a Little of ContainerLab
Linux
- The only Linux command you need to know - Cheat
- Alpine 3.16.0 released - Alpine Linux
- 30 Linux System Monitoring Tools Every SysAdmin Should Know - nixCraft
- How to Run Multiple Linux Distributions Inside the Terminal Using Distrobox
- Watch “Revolution OS - documentary about GNU/Linux” on YouTube - 1 hr 25 mins
- Non-Local Address Binds in Linux - Matt Oswalt
- CellStream - Linux Cheat Sheet
- Going multipath without Multipath TCP
- Command line toolbox Rich-CLI
- Command line cheat sheet PNG
- Watch ““The early days of Unix at Bell Labs” - Brian Kernighan” on YouTube - 48 mins
- Tweet from @amilajack. Life is to short to use dated cli tools that suck. Try these instead. A thread
Programmability
- Watch “Python Tutorial for Beginners” on YouTube - 2 hrs 52 mins
- How To Create A Python Function You Can Call From Other Scripts — Ethan Banks
- Come Go With Me - Darren Parkinson
- Free Programming Books
- Watch “25 nooby Python habits you need to ditch” on YouTube - 9 mins
Reference
- The Internet just changed. Deep dive on QUIC - David Bombals YouTube channel - 52 mins
- Microsoft Excel Shortcut Keys - Office Articles
- Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid - The GitHub Blog
SD-WAN
- Juniper 128T Smart Session Routing. How it works PDF, IETF Draft and Tunnel-Based versus Tunnel-Free SD-WAN PDF
- Open Source SD-WAN & SASE Flexi-WAN: Watch “Create Your Secure SD-WAN Network in 5 Minutes” on YouTube - 5 mins
Security
- Watch “How Do Red Teams Legally Break into Banks? - Tech Talk #2, 2022” on YouTube - 24 mins
- Security Infographics. Infographics to share - by Thomas Roccia - SecurityBreak
Service Provider
- Risky Business: Determining Malicious Probabilities Through ASNs
- Resources for BGP RPKI – Steve Puluka
- Route Distinguishers: The Secret To Load Balancing In Multihomed MPLS VPNs – NETWORK FUN-TIMES
- ASN Name and Shame Stats
- You’re Probably Using The Term MPLS Wrong – NETWORK FUN-TIMES
- Opinion: Do You Care about MPLS in 2022? - ipSpace.net blog
- Measuring the potential benefit of egress traffic engineering with Segment Routing - APNIC Blog
- MPLS: A solution that found a big customer problem - The Register
- This presentation by Geoff Huston looks at the changes that have occurred in the Internet’s inter-domain routing system over 2021. PDF
- RFC8212 - redefintion of the default behavior of a EBGP speaker - NOS compliance Tracker
- MPLS Segment Routing, Part 1: The Theory and Part 2: Junos Config! – NETWORK FUN-TIMES
- Running IS-IS over Unnumbered Ethernet Interfaces - ipSpace.net blog
- I am back + BGP next hop resolution using an LSP - Mom, Network Engineer, Juniper Ambassador
Tools and Testing
- Telemetry Collector and Graphical Front End on Junos Evolved
- Observability Engineering. Looking to make the switch from monitoring to observability? Download your free PDF copy of Honeycomb’s O’Reilly book: Observability Engineering to help you get started.
- Mockaroo - Random Data Generator and API Mocking Tool - JSON / CSV / SQL / Excel
- Convert Excel Data into a Network Diagram
- Online FlowChart & Diagrams Editor - Mermaid Live Editor
- nrich. A command-line tool to quickly analyze all IPs in a file and see which ones have open ports/ vulnerabilities.
- Disposable Virtual Machines in 3 commands with Multipass
- Excalidraw Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams. Collaborative and end-to-end encrypted.
- Open-source data multitool - VisiData
Wireless
- OpenWRT on Meraki. Bit hit and miss on which models and what age work.
- CBRS Pi… Sounds Delicious – Marko Does Wireless
And Finally
- Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety Bill; or, welcome to hell – Hi, I’m Heather Burns
- The Ultimate Windows Utility
- It’s confirmed: meetings are a waste of time - New Statesman
- Who is squatting IPv4 addresses?
- Get Chrome OS Flex for PC or Mac - Chrome Enterprise
- Job market trend: Hiring managers are enraged at job seekers “ghosting” them.
- VMs on Android
- Is Your Job Description A Ransom Note?
- Ghost in the ethernet optic
- As Kazakhstan Descends Into Chaos, Crypto Miners Are at a Loss - WIRED UK
- Raindrop.io — All-in-one bookmark manager
- 100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying - Life and style - The Guardian
- HTTP/3 is Fast - HTTP/3 is here, and it’s a big deal for web performance. See just how much faster it makes websites! - Request Metrics