I love Space! (BTW..guess what happened 55 years ago Saturday!) Imagine my delight at the synchronicity of finding Joseph Klibansky’s The Thinker. when walking around Rembrandt Square in Amsterdam on the last day of NAF’s AutoCon1 Conference. Space and one of my favorite sculptures all rolled into one at the end of a conference that READ MORE
Category: Network Automation
Posts about network automation and software defined networking, python for network automation.
La Corrida de Torero – torero in client/server mode
Con el protocolo de inauguración comenzó oficialmente el Carnaval Autlán 2024 We first took a look at torero in "standalone" or local mode. In this mode, torero helps you execute scripts from your repository as "services". This includes automatically building the required environment so all those steps to clone or update both your repository and READ MORE
Torero – Boots on the Ground Framework for Automation Sharing
Background One of the many useful things I came away with from AutoCon1 in Amsterdam was a "to-do" to investigate torero. Launched by Itential at NAF’s AutoCon1 as a community based product and presented to the AutoCon community by Peter Sprygada in Amsterdam, one has to take notice and I did. You can see Mr. READ MORE
Network Automation is not an Effortless Spacewalk
NASA Images Photo by Astronaut Tom Stafford Recent events have shown us that successfully landing on the moon is anything but routine and no easy feat. Somehow it seems we are surprised. Thats puzzling. I recently read The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America’s Race in Space by Eugene Cernan and READ MORE
Kill the CLI
As the conversation about Network Automation flows around us, this topic seems to be getting some traction (and quite a reaction!). Have you disabled the CLI? Should we disable the CLI? How long before the CLI is disabled? I don’t believe those are the question we should be asking but it made me examine why READ MORE
The First Ever Network Automation Conference – AutoCon0
First let me just say that you have got to love a zero indexed conference! If you are a network engineer and you don’t know what that means we need to chat..and that situation was a key topic of the conference. In my mind the goal of the conference was to assess the state of READ MORE
Whoop Dee Doo for my SuzieQ!
or How I Gained Fabric Like Visibility on a Campus Network Without Any Upgrades Last Updated: 2024-05-19 The network automation landscape moves fast and there is always something you come across which sparks your interest, but sometimes all you can do is it make note of it and hope you have time later on to READ MORE
How Network Engineers Can Manage Credentials and Keys More Securely in Python
For me, 2020 is going to be the year of taking my automation skills to the next level, and a Pandemic is not going to get in the way of that goal (much)! At the top of the list is handling credentials and API keys in a more secure fashion so lets look at how READ MORE
Your Automation Skills will Travel Well
In 2020 our automation skills may be the only thing that does travel! What I mean is that the automation skills being evangelized by so many in the networking community (Kirk Byers, David Bombal, Nick Russo, Jason Edelman and the Network to Code team, Hank Preston and Cisco DevNet and many more ….) will serve READ MORE
Getting Started with pyATS (and Genie)
What is Python Automated Test System (pyATS)? None of the answers I found to this question really made much sense to me initially. A Python3 based Test Automation and Validation Framework developed by Cisco (but open and extensible to any vendor) is probably the best short answer but still too vague. Add in Genie because, READ MORE