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I've been working within networking ever since I learned about servers and networks going back to 1999. I automate networks all day and am absolutely loving it!
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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 source network management tools. It is meant as a guide to help further your experience with...
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 a couple of methodologies to go through, and I had originally started down the path of us...
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 you along on my journey of setting up the Home Assistant to get metrics from it. The link for t...
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 to setup GNS3 systems to allow access. In the overall topology that is a "home" network sits...
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. Rather than having to stitch together your network, server, and desktop automation tools, there i...
Why I am moving to Hashnode
I'm a fan of making content. However, too often I get caught up on other activities such as work or being a father that takes me away from writing. I always have it in my plan to do so. One of the things I've been looking to do is to update the visua...
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 had always known why you use a container, but was always intimidated too much so to even get s...
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 Automator to quickly open your project that you wish to work on within VS Code, and presumably P...