Josh VanDeraa

Josh VanDeraa

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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!

Nautobot Jobs

Oct 11, 20218 min read56 views

Your Custom API Endpoint ยท One of the best features of Nautobot as a Network Automation Platform is the ability to create your own custom code. This is...

New Book: Open Source Network Management

Sep 18, 20212 min read26 views

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...

Ansible + NetBox: Getting Next Prefix / IP

Nov 22, 202011 min read244 views

This originates from a conversation had on Twitter about how to get the IP Prefix information from an IPAM tool, specifically NetBox using Ansible....

Home Assistant Prometheus Exporting Setup

Nov 21, 20205 min read193 views

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...

Practicing Network Automation with GNS3

Nov 1, 20203 min read293 views

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...

Practicing Network Automation with GNS3

Ansible for Enterprise

Nov 1, 20205 min read62 views

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...