Automation Inventory
This is a topic that I’m fairly opinionated on as of late is looking at what should be maintained within an inventory and the strategy of how to set up the i...
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ansible
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Devices
All of the work through the modules thus far in the series have brought us to what we all want to see. How to get or update device information inside of Naut...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Device Types
A device type is the next piece in the Nautobot Device onboarding requirements. The device type corresponds to the model number of the hardware (or virtual m...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Device Roles
A device role is aptly named, the role of the device. This is likely to be something that is meaningful to your organization and could change. For example yo...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Platforms
Platforms are an optional item when adding devices into Nautobot. The platform is the OS that you are going to be using. Most often this is used to help iden...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Manufacturers
Adding your manufacturers via code is the easy way to get started with your Nautobot devices. Immediately after adding Sites, the next thing to get going whe...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Site Module
This post dives into the Nautobot Ansible Content Collection sites module to create/update a Site. This series for the beginning will be a clone of what I ha...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Installation
This is the first post as I shift into taking a closer look at the Nautobot Ansible Collection. The collection includes many of the needed modules to effecti...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Devices
All of the work through the modules thus far in the series have brought us to what we all want to see. How to get or update device information inside of NetB...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Device Types
A device type is the next piece in the NetBox Device onboarding requirements. The device type corresponds to the model number of the hardware (or virtual mac...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Device Roles
A device role is aptly named, the role of the device. This is likely to be something that is meaningful to your organization and could change. For example yo...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Platforms
Platforms are an optional item when adding devices into NetBox. The platform is the OS that you are going to be using. Most often this is used to help identi...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Manufacturers
Adding your manufacturers via code is the easy way to get started with your NetBox devices. Immediately after adding Sites, the next thing to get going when ...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Site Module
This post dives into the NetBox Ansible Content Collection module to create/update a Site. As I start into this series on looking at the modules that create/...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Lookup Plugin
The NetBox lookup plugin is to get information out of NetBox for use within Ansible. This uses pynetbox to query the NetBox API for the information requested...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Inventory - Starting Out
The documentation can be found on ReadTheDocs. This is going to be starting out with the basics of the plugin and getting some sample output and to show how ...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Installation
This is the first post as I start to look at the NetBox Ansible Collection. This is an impressive collection with modules for several of the NetBox applicati...
Ansible + NetBox: Getting Next Prefix / IP
This originates from a conversation had on Twitter about how to get the IP Prefix information from an IPAM tool, specifically NetBox using Ansible. There are...
Practicing Network Automation with GNS3
In an earlier post I took a look at how to setup EVE-NG to get access to virtualized network devices and topologies. This post is going to take a look at how...
Ansible for Enterprise
One of the appealing features that I have towards working with Ansible is that it is able to automate components across the entire Enterprise IT stacks. Rath...
Docker for Automation Environment - Ansible 2.10
Docker is a terrific solution for making a consistent working environment. It’s been about a year or so since I built my very first own Docker container. I h...
Ansible Cisco IOS User Module
In this post I will be taking a look at some of the usability setup of managing Cisco IOS devices with the Ansible Cisco IOS User Module. This can be very he...
Ansible Cisco ios_interfaces module
This has become a post about the ios_interfaces module with documentation that can be found Ansible ios_interfaces doc. Originally I was going to write about...
Ansible differences between ios command and cli command
In an earlier post I covered the differences between ios_config and cli_config. However I did not cover what the difference was between ios_command and cli_...
EVE-NG for Automation Practice and Testing
As I restarted looking at how I’m continuing my education on the Network Automation and certification realm I asked the question “How are you simulating your...
Ansible IOS BGP Module
In this post I’m going to be taking a deeper dive into the new in Ansible 2.8 IOS BGP module. This may be one of the more complex modules to date and I’ll tr...
Ansible ASA OG Module
Today we are taking a look at the newest module out for Cisco ASA Ansible module - asa_og. This one is particularly exciting for the configurations that are ...
Ansible ASA Command Module
Today will be a touch shorter post, but it is good to be back at it. In this post I will be taking a quick look around at the asa_command module, as we start...
Ansible Saving Cisco Configs to NVRAM with Cisco Specific Modules
Today I’m going to take a look at a method to be able to save the configuration of a Cisco device to NVRAM (copy run start). I will be taking a look at multi...
Ansible Cisco IOS Interface Module
Update: ios_interface is to be deprecated as of Ansible 2.13
Ansible IOS VLAN
Back to it finally. Going to take a look at the Ansible module ios_vlan. The purpose of this is to provide a declarative module for managing VLANs on IOS dev...
Ansible IOS Banner
Today’s post is going to be a short and sweet one (unless I get to writing two). I’m going to take a look at ios_banner module. This one is pretty much strai...
Ansible Network Engine and NTC Templates
In this post we will talk about primarily three components that will work together to get structured data out of the command line of a Cisco device. The thre...
Ansible differences between ios config and cli config
This is a post that I’m going to review some of the differences between the ios_config module and the new cli_config module within Ansible networking. I beca...
Ansible - Working with command output
You have decided to move forward with using/trying Ansible. You can now connect to a device and get a green success that you get a hello world like command s...
Ansible Blocks
One of the more interesting features that I have just come across within the Ansible automation world is that of the block. I find this very helpful for both...
cisco
DevNet Expert - Starting Point
This week Cisco announced the DevNet Expert certification exam. This exam and certification is something that I have been looking forward to for a long while...
Nautobot Jobs - Your Custom API Endpoint
One of the best features of Nautobot as a Network Automation Platform is the ability to create your own custom code. This is executed via a job. What makes N...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Devices
All of the work through the modules thus far in the series have brought us to what we all want to see. How to get or update device information inside of Naut...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Device Types
A device type is the next piece in the Nautobot Device onboarding requirements. The device type corresponds to the model number of the hardware (or virtual m...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Device Roles
A device role is aptly named, the role of the device. This is likely to be something that is meaningful to your organization and could change. For example yo...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Platforms
Platforms are an optional item when adding devices into Nautobot. The platform is the OS that you are going to be using. Most often this is used to help iden...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Manufacturers
Adding your manufacturers via code is the easy way to get started with your Nautobot devices. Immediately after adding Sites, the next thing to get going whe...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Devices
All of the work through the modules thus far in the series have brought us to what we all want to see. How to get or update device information inside of NetB...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Device Types
A device type is the next piece in the NetBox Device onboarding requirements. The device type corresponds to the model number of the hardware (or virtual mac...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Device Roles
A device role is aptly named, the role of the device. This is likely to be something that is meaningful to your organization and could change. For example yo...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Platforms
Platforms are an optional item when adding devices into NetBox. The platform is the OS that you are going to be using. Most often this is used to help identi...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Manufacturers
Adding your manufacturers via code is the easy way to get started with your NetBox devices. Immediately after adding Sites, the next thing to get going when ...
Ansible + NetBox: Getting Next Prefix / IP
This originates from a conversation had on Twitter about how to get the IP Prefix information from an IPAM tool, specifically NetBox using Ansible. There are...
Practicing Network Automation with GNS3
In an earlier post I took a look at how to setup EVE-NG to get access to virtualized network devices and topologies. This post is going to take a look at how...
Ansible Cisco IOS User Module
In this post I will be taking a look at some of the usability setup of managing Cisco IOS devices with the Ansible Cisco IOS User Module. This can be very he...
Ansible Cisco ios_interfaces module
This has become a post about the ios_interfaces module with documentation that can be found Ansible ios_interfaces doc. Originally I was going to write about...
Ansible differences between ios command and cli command
In an earlier post I covered the differences between ios_config and cli_config. However I did not cover what the difference was between ios_command and cli_...
Ansible IOS BGP Module
In this post I’m going to be taking a deeper dive into the new in Ansible 2.8 IOS BGP module. This may be one of the more complex modules to date and I’ll tr...
Ansible ASA OG Module
Today we are taking a look at the newest module out for Cisco ASA Ansible module - asa_og. This one is particularly exciting for the configurations that are ...
Ansible ASA Command Module
Today will be a touch shorter post, but it is good to be back at it. In this post I will be taking a quick look around at the asa_command module, as we start...
Ansible Saving Cisco Configs to NVRAM with Cisco Specific Modules
Today I’m going to take a look at a method to be able to save the configuration of a Cisco device to NVRAM (copy run start). I will be taking a look at multi...
Ansible Cisco IOS Interface Module
Update: ios_interface is to be deprecated as of Ansible 2.13
Ansible IOS VLAN
Back to it finally. Going to take a look at the Ansible module ios_vlan. The purpose of this is to provide a declarative module for managing VLANs on IOS dev...
Ansible IOS Banner
Today’s post is going to be a short and sweet one (unless I get to writing two). I’m going to take a look at ios_banner module. This one is pretty much strai...
Ansible Network Engine and NTC Templates
In this post we will talk about primarily three components that will work together to get structured data out of the command line of a Cisco device. The thre...
Ansible differences between ios config and cli config
This is a post that I’m going to review some of the differences between the ios_config module and the new cli_config module within Ansible networking. I beca...
Ansible - Working with command output
You have decided to move forward with using/trying Ansible. You can now connect to a device and get a green success that you get a hello world like command s...
netbox
NetBox Ansible Collection: Devices
All of the work through the modules thus far in the series have brought us to what we all want to see. How to get or update device information inside of NetB...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Device Types
A device type is the next piece in the NetBox Device onboarding requirements. The device type corresponds to the model number of the hardware (or virtual mac...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Device Roles
A device role is aptly named, the role of the device. This is likely to be something that is meaningful to your organization and could change. For example yo...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Platforms
Platforms are an optional item when adding devices into NetBox. The platform is the OS that you are going to be using. Most often this is used to help identi...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Manufacturers
Adding your manufacturers via code is the easy way to get started with your NetBox devices. Immediately after adding Sites, the next thing to get going when ...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Site Module
This post dives into the NetBox Ansible Content Collection module to create/update a Site. As I start into this series on looking at the modules that create/...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Lookup Plugin
The NetBox lookup plugin is to get information out of NetBox for use within Ansible. This uses pynetbox to query the NetBox API for the information requested...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Inventory - Starting Out
The documentation can be found on ReadTheDocs. This is going to be starting out with the basics of the plugin and getting some sample output and to show how ...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Installation
This is the first post as I start to look at the NetBox Ansible Collection. This is an impressive collection with modules for several of the NetBox applicati...
Ansible + NetBox: Getting Next Prefix / IP
This originates from a conversation had on Twitter about how to get the IP Prefix information from an IPAM tool, specifically NetBox using Ansible. There are...
arista
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Devices
All of the work through the modules thus far in the series have brought us to what we all want to see. How to get or update device information inside of Naut...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Device Types
A device type is the next piece in the Nautobot Device onboarding requirements. The device type corresponds to the model number of the hardware (or virtual m...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Device Roles
A device role is aptly named, the role of the device. This is likely to be something that is meaningful to your organization and could change. For example yo...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Platforms
Platforms are an optional item when adding devices into Nautobot. The platform is the OS that you are going to be using. Most often this is used to help iden...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Manufacturers
Adding your manufacturers via code is the easy way to get started with your Nautobot devices. Immediately after adding Sites, the next thing to get going whe...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Devices
All of the work through the modules thus far in the series have brought us to what we all want to see. How to get or update device information inside of NetB...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Device Types
A device type is the next piece in the NetBox Device onboarding requirements. The device type corresponds to the model number of the hardware (or virtual mac...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Device Roles
A device role is aptly named, the role of the device. This is likely to be something that is meaningful to your organization and could change. For example yo...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Platforms
Platforms are an optional item when adding devices into NetBox. The platform is the OS that you are going to be using. Most often this is used to help identi...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Manufacturers
Adding your manufacturers via code is the easy way to get started with your NetBox devices. Immediately after adding Sites, the next thing to get going when ...
juniper
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Devices
All of the work through the modules thus far in the series have brought us to what we all want to see. How to get or update device information inside of Naut...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Device Types
A device type is the next piece in the Nautobot Device onboarding requirements. The device type corresponds to the model number of the hardware (or virtual m...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Device Roles
A device role is aptly named, the role of the device. This is likely to be something that is meaningful to your organization and could change. For example yo...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Platforms
Platforms are an optional item when adding devices into Nautobot. The platform is the OS that you are going to be using. Most often this is used to help iden...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Manufacturers
Adding your manufacturers via code is the easy way to get started with your Nautobot devices. Immediately after adding Sites, the next thing to get going whe...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Devices
All of the work through the modules thus far in the series have brought us to what we all want to see. How to get or update device information inside of NetB...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Device Types
A device type is the next piece in the NetBox Device onboarding requirements. The device type corresponds to the model number of the hardware (or virtual mac...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Device Roles
A device role is aptly named, the role of the device. This is likely to be something that is meaningful to your organization and could change. For example yo...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Platforms
Platforms are an optional item when adding devices into NetBox. The platform is the OS that you are going to be using. Most often this is used to help identi...
NetBox Ansible Collection: Manufacturers
Adding your manufacturers via code is the easy way to get started with your NetBox devices. Immediately after adding Sites, the next thing to get going when ...
nautobot
GraphQL - Aliasing
One of the features that I find myself using periodically that I think is underrated as far as using GraphQL is its ability to alias return keys in the respo...
Nautobot Jobs - Your Custom API Endpoint
One of the best features of Nautobot as a Network Automation Platform is the ability to create your own custom code. This is executed via a job. What makes N...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Devices
All of the work through the modules thus far in the series have brought us to what we all want to see. How to get or update device information inside of Naut...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Device Types
A device type is the next piece in the Nautobot Device onboarding requirements. The device type corresponds to the model number of the hardware (or virtual m...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Device Roles
A device role is aptly named, the role of the device. This is likely to be something that is meaningful to your organization and could change. For example yo...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Platforms
Platforms are an optional item when adding devices into Nautobot. The platform is the OS that you are going to be using. Most often this is used to help iden...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Manufacturers
Adding your manufacturers via code is the easy way to get started with your Nautobot devices. Immediately after adding Sites, the next thing to get going whe...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Site Module
This post dives into the Nautobot Ansible Content Collection sites module to create/update a Site. This series for the beginning will be a clone of what I ha...
Nautobot Ansible Collection: Installation
This is the first post as I shift into taking a closer look at the Nautobot Ansible Collection. The collection includes many of the needed modules to effecti...
netdevops
Docker for Automation Environment - Ansible 2.10
Docker is a terrific solution for making a consistent working environment. It’s been about a year or so since I built my very first own Docker container. I h...
Ansible Cisco IOS User Module
In this post I will be taking a look at some of the usability setup of managing Cisco IOS devices with the Ansible Cisco IOS User Module. This can be very he...
EVE-NG for Automation Practice and Testing
As I restarted looking at how I’m continuing my education on the Network Automation and certification realm I asked the question “How are you simulating your...
Network CI/CD - work in progress (Links to other videos/pages)
At DevNet Create 2018 there is a video that was put together related to CI/CD in the NetDevOps world. This is something that is very exciting to see that the...
blog
Jekyll - Adding a URL Redirection
Recently I had some discussions with Nick Russo on some URL redirection changes he was making for his content. I’m not going to take any of his thunder of wh...
2020 Blog Update
I’ve changed a few things on the site. Sorry about that! URLs have changed. Over the past week or so I have been working through making some what originally ...
Ansible Cisco ios_interfaces module
This has become a post about the ios_interfaces module with documentation that can be found Ansible ios_interfaces doc. Originally I was going to write about...
Getting Started with the Blog
Why this post? Because I decided to change the style of how I was hosting my blog. Before I had decided to just host the blog on something that was easy to g...
automation
GraphQL - Aliasing
One of the features that I find myself using periodically that I think is underrated as far as using GraphQL is its ability to alias return keys in the respo...
Python Pseudo Code
One of my favorite things to do as I get started with writing a piece of automation or code, is to lay out the design with pseudo code in the form of comment...
Automation Inventory
This is a topic that I’m fairly opinionated on as of late is looking at what should be maintained within an inventory and the strategy of how to set up the i...
productivity
Using Apple Automator to Open Projects
Today I’m going to walk through the newest part of my personal workflow for working with projects. Straight to the point, this is going to be using Apple Aut...
Keeping Up on Tech
Life always gets busy. That is one thing that you always hear about. I am definitely in that boat as well that things are getting busy. With this in mind, I ...
network_design
Discontiguous Masks
Discontiguous masks are something that is going to be somewhat historic within the network design toolbox. It is basically a methodology of looking at partic...
Micro Segmentation vs Segmentation
In a recent podcast there was some discussion that it sounded like the term Micro Segmentation was being used where it was really traditional segmentation. S...
cli_command
Ansible differences between ios command and cli command
In an earlier post I covered the differences between ios_config and cli_config. However I did not cover what the difference was between ios_command and cli_...
Ansible differences between ios config and cli config
This is a post that I’m going to review some of the differences between the ios_config module and the new cli_config module within Ansible networking. I beca...
ios_command
Ansible differences between ios command and cli command
In an earlier post I covered the differences between ios_config and cli_config. However I did not cover what the difference was between ios_command and cli_...
Ansible differences between ios config and cli config
This is a post that I’m going to review some of the differences between the ios_config module and the new cli_config module within Ansible networking. I beca...
asa
Ansible ASA OG Module
Today we are taking a look at the newest module out for Cisco ASA Ansible module - asa_og. This one is particularly exciting for the configurations that are ...
Ansible ASA Command Module
Today will be a touch shorter post, but it is good to be back at it. In this post I will be taking a quick look around at the asa_command module, as we start...
jekyll
Jekyll - Adding a URL Redirection
Recently I had some discussions with Nick Russo on some URL redirection changes he was making for his content. I’m not going to take any of his thunder of wh...
2020 Blog Update
I’ve changed a few things on the site. Sorry about that! URLs have changed. Over the past week or so I have been working through making some what originally ...
networkmanagment
Nautobot Jobs - Your Custom API Endpoint
One of the best features of Nautobot as a Network Automation Platform is the ability to create your own custom code. This is executed via a job. What makes N...
New Book - Open Source Network Management
Earlier this month I was able to hit the publish button on a new book - Open Source Network Management. The book dives into getting started with several open...
meraki
GraphQL - Aliasing
One of the features that I find myself using periodically that I think is underrated as far as using GraphQL is its ability to alias return keys in the respo...
Nautobot Jobs - Your Custom API Endpoint
One of the best features of Nautobot as a Network Automation Platform is the ability to create your own custom code. This is executed via a job. What makes N...
nornir
Python Pseudo Code
One of my favorite things to do as I get started with writing a piece of automation or code, is to lay out the design with pseudo code in the form of comment...
Automation Inventory
This is a topic that I’m fairly opinionated on as of late is looking at what should be maintained within an inventory and the strategy of how to set up the i...
python
GraphQL - Aliasing
One of the features that I find myself using periodically that I think is underrated as far as using GraphQL is its ability to alias return keys in the respo...
Python Pseudo Code
One of my favorite things to do as I get started with writing a piece of automation or code, is to lay out the design with pseudo code in the form of comment...
blocks
Ansible Blocks
One of the more interesting features that I have just come across within the Ansible automation world is that of the block. I find this very helpful for both...
cicd
Network CI/CD - work in progress (Links to other videos/pages)
At DevNet Create 2018 there is a video that was put together related to CI/CD in the NetDevOps world. This is something that is very exciting to see that the...
learning
Keeping Up on Tech
Life always gets busy. That is one thing that you always hear about. I am definitely in that boat as well that things are getting busy. With this in mind, I ...
segmentation
Discontiguous Masks
Discontiguous masks are something that is going to be somewhat historic within the network design toolbox. It is basically a methodology of looking at partic...
ntc
Ansible Network Engine and NTC Templates
In this post we will talk about primarily three components that will work together to get structured data out of the command line of a Cisco device. The thre...
parsing
Ansible Network Engine and NTC Templates
In this post we will talk about primarily three components that will work together to get structured data out of the command line of a Cisco device. The thre...
ios_vlan
Ansible IOS VLAN
Back to it finally. Going to take a look at the Ansible module ios_vlan. The purpose of this is to provide a declarative module for managing VLANs on IOS dev...
ios_interface
Ansible Cisco IOS Interface Module
Update: ios_interface is to be deprecated as of Ansible 2.13
cisco_ios
Ansible Saving Cisco Configs to NVRAM with Cisco Specific Modules
Today I’m going to take a look at a method to be able to save the configuration of a Cisco device to NVRAM (copy run start). I will be taking a look at multi...
cisco_wlc
Ansible Saving Cisco Configs to NVRAM with Cisco Specific Modules
Today I’m going to take a look at a method to be able to save the configuration of a Cisco device to NVRAM (copy run start). I will be taking a look at multi...
cisco_nxos
Ansible Saving Cisco Configs to NVRAM with Cisco Specific Modules
Today I’m going to take a look at a method to be able to save the configuration of a Cisco device to NVRAM (copy run start). I will be taking a look at multi...
saving_config
Ansible Saving Cisco Configs to NVRAM with Cisco Specific Modules
Today I’m going to take a look at a method to be able to save the configuration of a Cisco device to NVRAM (copy run start). I will be taking a look at multi...
asa_og
Ansible ASA OG Module
Today we are taking a look at the newest module out for Cisco ASA Ansible module - asa_og. This one is particularly exciting for the configurations that are ...
ios_bgp
Ansible IOS BGP Module
In this post I’m going to be taking a deeper dive into the new in Ansible 2.8 IOS BGP module. This may be one of the more complex modules to date and I’ll tr...
eveng
EVE-NG for Automation Practice and Testing
As I restarted looking at how I’m continuing my education on the Network Automation and certification realm I asked the question “How are you simulating your...
network simulation
EVE-NG for Automation Practice and Testing
As I restarted looking at how I’m continuing my education on the Network Automation and certification realm I asked the question “How are you simulating your...
homenet
Disney Plus Streaming Bandwidth
This will be a brief departure from the automation focused attention that I have been giving to this blog over the past year or so. This week in the United S...
disney
Disney Plus Streaming Bandwidth
This will be a brief departure from the automation focused attention that I have been giving to this blog over the past year or so. This week in the United S...
streaming
Disney Plus Streaming Bandwidth
This will be a brief departure from the automation focused attention that I have been giving to this blog over the past year or so. This week in the United S...
deprecation
Ansible Cisco ios_interfaces module
This has become a post about the ios_interfaces module with documentation that can be found Ansible ios_interfaces doc. Originally I was going to write about...
ios_user
Ansible Cisco IOS User Module
In this post I will be taking a look at some of the usability setup of managing Cisco IOS devices with the Ansible Cisco IOS User Module. This can be very he...
network automation
Ansible Cisco IOS User Module
In this post I will be taking a look at some of the usability setup of managing Cisco IOS devices with the Ansible Cisco IOS User Module. This can be very he...
vscode
Using Apple Automator to Open Projects
Today I’m going to walk through the newest part of my personal workflow for working with projects. Straight to the point, this is going to be using Apple Aut...
mac
Using Apple Automator to Open Projects
Today I’m going to walk through the newest part of my personal workflow for working with projects. Straight to the point, this is going to be using Apple Aut...
docker
Docker for Automation Environment - Ansible 2.10
Docker is a terrific solution for making a consistent working environment. It’s been about a year or so since I built my very first own Docker container. I h...
enterprise design
Ansible for Enterprise
One of the appealing features that I have towards working with Ansible is that it is able to automate components across the entire Enterprise IT stacks. Rath...
network simulator
Practicing Network Automation with GNS3
In an earlier post I took a look at how to setup EVE-NG to get access to virtualized network devices and topologies. This post is going to take a look at how...
gns3
Practicing Network Automation with GNS3
In an earlier post I took a look at how to setup EVE-NG to get access to virtualized network devices and topologies. This post is going to take a look at how...
hashnode
2020 Blog Update
I’ve changed a few things on the site. Sorry about that! URLs have changed. Over the past week or so I have been working through making some what originally ...
hugo
2020 Blog Update
I’ve changed a few things on the site. Sorry about that! URLs have changed. Over the past week or so I have been working through making some what originally ...
homeassistant
Home Assistant Prometheus Exporting Setup
There does not appear to be a complete set of documentation pieces available for setting up Prometheus on the Home Assistant platform. This post will take yo...
prometheus
Home Assistant Prometheus Exporting Setup
There does not appear to be a complete set of documentation pieces available for setting up Prometheus on the Home Assistant platform. This post will take yo...
book
New Book - Open Source Network Management
Earlier this month I was able to hit the publish button on a new book - Open Source Network Management. The book dives into getting started with several open...
opensource
New Book - Open Source Network Management
Earlier this month I was able to hit the publish button on a new book - Open Source Network Management. The book dives into getting started with several open...
sourceoftruth
Nautobot Jobs - Your Custom API Endpoint
One of the best features of Nautobot as a Network Automation Platform is the ability to create your own custom code. This is executed via a job. What makes N...
jobs
Nautobot Jobs - Your Custom API Endpoint
One of the best features of Nautobot as a Network Automation Platform is the ability to create your own custom code. This is executed via a job. What makes N...
devnet
DevNet Expert - Starting Point
This week Cisco announced the DevNet Expert certification exam. This exam and certification is something that I have been looking forward to for a long while...
ccdevnetexpert
DevNet Expert - Starting Point
This week Cisco announced the DevNet Expert certification exam. This exam and certification is something that I have been looking forward to for a long while...
graphql
GraphQL - Aliasing
One of the features that I find myself using periodically that I think is underrated as far as using GraphQL is its ability to alias return keys in the respo...