Building an Ansible Sandpit using Vagrant Vagrant SSH connections are built for host to box, not box to box. In this post I detail how to fix this with an aim to build an Ansible sandpit. Ansible and Vagrant
Ansible Install: Ubuntu vs. PIP vs Fedora Aim I'm trying to write a simple 'how to' for the build of an Ansible 'sandpit' environment that my networking colleague can follow. I want this to have minimal demands in terms of
python My Video Adventures across the ArubaOS-CX Spectrum Hungry Horace For the uninitiated, ArubaOS-CX is a new networking OS, running on Aruba's 84/830xx campus core switches. I've been playing around with the OS for a while now. The headline is
The internet is a series of (you)tubes As I delve further in python and network automation I've made a couple of series focusing on python and the ArubaOS-Switch API. Python and REST APIs This series is comprised of four videos.
networking IPv6 Security Workshop (plus free sandwiches) A free workshop in London on IPv6 Security, hosted by the UK IPv6 Council? I'm in. This is a write-up of the recent IPv6 Security Workshop held at the BT Centre, London, by
network automation Moving Beyond CLI Hello, here's a link to a youtube video that I made this week. It is a screen-capture of a preso that I gave at Aruba Atmosphere in Disneyland Paris: One area that I
Getting into Python: A Guide for Networkers Part 2 This is a very subjective piece about what worked for me when I first tried my hand at getting into Python as a networking chap. It comes with the disclaimer that your experience
Getting into Python: A Guide for Networkers Part 1 No, you are not mistaken, it is 2017 and I'm writing this blog about networking types learning python. I understand that this may all sound a little 2012 but I think I've actually
Adventures in youtube At this point I haven't update this blog for about 6 months and this post stands as a 'What I've been up to' report. "Pass me my branded baseball cap!" AKA
Openswitch, Docker & Linux Networking - Part 2: Build a Network EDIT 01Nov2016 It looks like openswitch is going through a reboot of sorts, hard, soft, whatever, I'm not sure how relevant this information is anymore. I'll leave it up as an archive but
Openswitch, Docker & Linux Networking - Part 1: Build an image EDIT 01Nov2016 It looks like openswitch is going through a reboot of sorts, hard, soft, whatever, I'm not sure how relevant this information is anymore. I'll leave it up as an archive but
Lab on a Laptop - Building a VXLAN Leaf Spine Network with HPE VSRs Building virtual labs is quick, easy and no one complains about your cabling. Throughout my career, until very recently, I always had access to a lab of some kind, so when I heard
My CCIE story "You are Number 19080" "I am not a number..." This autumn I went through the CCIE recert process again for the fourth time. In the interests of posterity it
cumulusvx Cumulus VX with Vagrant In this blog post I explain how to build a test environment to get hands-on experience with Cumulus VX, Vagrant and a touch of shell scripting. Rise of the Rocket Turtle! Recently I've
Zero Touch Part 2 - Chaining VPNs, Routing & Security In Part 1 of my Zero Touch write-up I focused on the basics; enabling automatic configuration of a factory-default router, but that is just part of the story. Pushing config to remote devices
Zero Touch Part 1 - HP IMC Energetic 90s bard, MC Hammer, once made the boastful claim; 'U can't touch this.' That's not just the hook of a pop-rap jam, it is an actual quote from a network engineer
hello world welcome etc I'm Joe Neville Yet another networker jumping on the DevOps bandwagon. Networking since 2001 I've done Ops, I've done pre-sales, I'm #19080. I hate pointless .ppt and being told it is