Earlier this month I was able to hit the publish button on a new book - <a target="_blank" href="https://leanpub.com/opensourcenetworkmanagement">Open Source Network Management</a>. 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 using and installing open source tools, all on a single VM/host. The size of the host is meant to have minimal capital investment, in the way of a single NUC or a minimal VM deployed on a hypervisor in your environment.
The book is published on <a target="_blank" href="https://leanpub.com">LeanPub</a> where I can continue to make updates to the book while providing the content to the readers sooner than later. The current state of the book is at a strong technical release state. I am working through having some editing done on the book yet, but no edits of the technical components will be made.
The tools covered in the book thus far:
<ul>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.nautobot.com">Nautobot</a> - The Open Source Network Source of Truth and Automation Platform</li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.vaultproject.io/">Hashicorp Vault</a> - Secrets Management</li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/telegraf/">InfluxData Telegraf</a> - Metrics Gathering</li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://prometheus.io/">Prometheus</a> - Metrics Storage</li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://grafana.com/grafana/">Grafana</a> - Metrics Visualization</li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.nginx.com/">NGINX</a> - Web server and reverse proxy</li>
</ul>
I encourage you to take a look, with the purchase you will be able to get the book in multiple formats including PDF, epub, and mobi formats. 
Let me know what you think!
Josh

Earlier this month I was able to hit the publish button on a new book - [Open Source Network Management](https://leanpub.com/opensourcenetworkmanagement). 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 using and installing open source tools, all on a single VM/host. The size of the host is meant to have minimal capital investment, in the way of a single NUC or a minimal VM deployed on a hypervisor in your environment.

The book is published on [LeanPub](https://leanpub.com) where I can continue to make updates to the book while providing the content to the readers sooner than later. The current state of the book is at a strong technical release state. I am working through having some editing done on the book yet, but no edits of the technical components will be made.

The tools covered in the book thus far:

* [Nautobot](https://www.nautobot.com) - The Open Source Network Source of Truth and Automation Platform
* [Hashicorp Vault](https://www.vaultproject.io/) - Secrets Management
* [InfluxData Telegraf](https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/telegraf/) - Metrics Gathering
* [Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/) - Metrics Storage
* [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/) - Metrics Visualization
* [NGINX](https://www.nginx.com/) - Web server and reverse proxy

I encourage you to take a look, with the purchase you will be able to get the book in multiple formats including PDF, epub, and mobi formats. 

Let me know what you think!

Josh

New Book: Open Source Network Management

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!


Network automation engineer with Ansible, Nornir, Python, Netmiko in the toolbelt. Loves CICD!