Books #

For several years I have been providing content in blog posts. This has evolved into writing books as well.

Open Source Network Management, 2nd Edition #

The Second Edition is out now — an improvement and modernization of the first. Across thirteen hands-on chapters it is a guide to building a complete, modern network management platform — source of truth to full observability — entirely from open source, on your own infrastructure, all in a real Containerlab lab you can follow along with end to end.

Head to osnm.josh-v.com for the full details, formats, and a free sample chapter.

Network Automation with Nautobot #

I’m proud to have been an author in the Network Automation with Nautobot found on Amazon book that has recently been released. The book covers:

• Learn how documenting your network in Nautobot can accelerate your network automation journey
• Apply NetDevOps to your network by leveraging Nautobot as a network source of truth
• Minimize tool sprawl by extending, using, or building Nautobot Apps

Nautobot enables network teams to build a scalable and extensible network source of truth that provides a foundation to power any network automation stack.

With the help of this guide, you’ll learn how to deploy, manage, and integrate Nautobot as a source of truth and network automation platform. As you progress, you’ll learn what a network source of truth is, the relationship between data and network automation, and network data models. You’ll also gain a broad understanding of Nautobot and its robust features that allow maximum flexibility. A dedicated section will show you how to construct a single source of truth with Nautobot and help you explore its programmatic APIs, including REST APIs, GraphQL, webhooks, and Nautobot Job Hooks. Later, you’ll develop custom data models and custom apps for Nautobot and experience its extensibility and powerful developer API. In the last part of this book, you’ll discover how to deploy configuration compliance and automated remediation once Nautobot is deployed as a network source of truth.

By the end of this book, you’ll be able to design and manage Nautobot as a network source of truth, understand its key features, and extend Nautobot by creating custom data models and apps that suit your network and your team.

Modern Network Observability #

The second book in 2024 is Modern Network Observability, which provides a hands-on approach to using open source tools for network observability in 2024. (More details coming soon)

-Josh