Heavy Networking 563: Automating Documentation With Ansible, Genie, And Jinja2
On today’s Heavy Networking, we explore how to get network data you reference all the time and store it in a CSV using Ansible, the Genie parser, and Jinja2. Our guide for how to assemble these gears and get them cranking is John Capobianco, automation maven and Sr. IT Planner and Integrator for the House of Commons in the Canadian Parliament.
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Preempting Gray Failures With AI/ML
The network was definitely up, and had been up. There was nothing in the logs indicating link flaps, spanning-tree convergence events, or routing process adjacency changes. The packets had been, were presently, and presumably would forever be flowing. Flowing like a river. I was pondering this inaccurate version of reality because of an annoying ticket that wouldn’t go away...
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Day Two Cloud 085: Hosting Your Infrastructure Code In The Cloud
Let’s say I host my Infrastructure as Code provisioning stuff locally. It works. It’s nearby. I feel in control. Are there good reasons I should move that stuff to the cloud? Here to help us sort the pros and cons of that question is Calvin Hendryx-Parker. Calvin is the co-founder and CTO of Six Feet Up, a Python web application development company.
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Heavy Networking 562: Juniper’s Paragon Automation Portfolio Prioritizes Service Experience (Sponsored)
In today’s sponsored show with Juniper Networks, we dive into Juniper's Paragon product portfolio, which measures service quality for critical applications. The portfolio allows service providers and enterprises to get deeper visibility into, and automated control over, their networks. Our guests from Juniper to walk us through the portfolio are Peter Weinberger and Jonas Krogell.
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Full Stack Journey 051: Knowing When It’s Time For A Career Transition
Career changes and transitions seem inevitable in technology. When is the right time? How do you know you're ready? Is it a smart move? How do you deal with imposter syndrome? Full Stack Journey Scott Lowe and guest Massimo Re Ferre discuss these and other IT career questions.
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Full Stack Journey 051: Knowing When It’s Time For A Career Transition
Career changes and transitions seem inevitable in technology. When is the right time? How do you know you're ready? Is it a smart move? How do you deal with imposter syndrome? Full Stack Journey Scott Lowe and guest Massimo Re Ferre discuss these and other IT career questions.
Network Break 320: Juniper Rebrands Service Provider Automation Offerings; Fortinet Gets SASE With Latest OS
This week's Network Break dives into Juniper reorganizing and rebranding automation products as the Paragon portfolio, new SASE and ZTNA capabilities from Fortinet, the rise of cyber-insurance premiums, an HPE server getting launched into space, and more tech news.
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Negotiating your maximum salary
If you are not negotiating your salary, you are almost certainly leaving money on the table. Negotiation is an important career skill and activity because it provides a very nice upside in overall career earnings. Preparation is important because the person you are negotiating with probably has a lot more experience in salary negotiations than […]
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Tech Bytes: MSSP Partners With Fortinet To Deliver Secure SD-WAN (Sponsored)
Today's Tech Bytes podcast from the Packet Pushers is a conversation with Node4, a managed security service provider that's deploying and operating Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN for its customers. Fortinet is our sponsor. Our guest from Node4 is Glenn Akester, Lead Network Services Architect.
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Heavy Networking 561: Modeling Your Network For Intent-Based Assurance With IP Fabric (Sponsored)
In today's podcast, sponsored by IP Fabric, we dive into the IP Fabric Network Assurance platform. This platform gathers network configuration and state, and then builds a network model using a graph database. The result is a "digital twin" of the network that engineers and security teams can use for troubleshooting, to plan and verify changes, for network and security analysis, and to enable closed-loop automation. Our guests from IP Fabric are Pavel Bykov, CEO; and Daren Fulwell, Network Automation Evangelist.
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What Should A Consultant Charge Clients? – Video
In this Day Two Cloud podcast clip, we discuss consulting and MONEY. To hear the entire episode, go here. Hosts Ned Bellavance and Ethan Banks are joined by Michael Jenkins, Sr. Systems Reliability Engineer at Managed Kaos; and Anthony Nocentino, Enterprise Architect at Centino Systems and Pluralsight author. If you like engineering discussions like this, […]
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IPv6 Buzz 069: IPv6 And LACNIC In Latin America
Latin America boasts impressive growth in IPv6 adoption. In today's podcast we speak with Alejandro Acosta, Innovation and Development Engineer at Latin America's Regional Internet Registry, LACNIC, to find out how the region is achieving its deployments.
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Day Two Cloud 084: So You Want To Be A Consultant
Today's Day Two Cloud gets into consulting. How do you start? What does the job entail? Is it a good job to have? How do you build a client base? There are so many questions! We're joined by Michael Jenkins, Sr. Systems Reliability Engineer at Managed Kaos; and Anthony Nocentino, Enterprise Architect at Centino Systems and Pluralsight author, to get some answers.
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Meraki-CLI – Command Line Utility for the Meraki Dashboard
Meraki changed the industry years ago as one of the first platforms to use a cloud portal for all configuration; forgoing the typical local CLI/GUI administration of network appliances. One of the first things a traditional network engineer (like myself) may notice about Meraki equipment is their complete lack of a command-line interface. For the […]
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SD-WAN Config Is Not Mystical – Video
Michael Shepherd, CTO at Rogers-O’Brien Construction, talks through his SD-WAN experience. He points out that it wasn’t hard to configure a full-mesh architecture. That’s a stark contrast to hugging your router dearly to your chest while reciting DMVPN configuration stanzas and staring at your phone in case you need to call TAC…who you have on […]
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Tech Bytes: Get Your Arms Around Network Changes With Infoblox’s NetMRI (Sponsored)
NetMRI from Infoblox is a network management tool with a variety of capabilities including device discovery and network topology mapping, configuration monitoring, change management, and more. We dive into what this tool can do with guests Ingmar Van Glabbeek, Senior Product Manager at Infoblox; and Adam Fox, Solution Architect at Empowered Networks. Infoblox is our sponsor for this Tech Bytes podcast.
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Network Break 319: Arista Unveils Zero Trust Offering; Google Searches For Cloud Profits
Take a Network Break! This week we start with a couple of follow-ups, and then dive into the week's news. Arista Networks announced a Zero Trust offering that has room to grow, Google's Stadia game streaming service shuts down its in-house game development studio, AWS and Google Cloud announce their financial results, and more tech news.
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Tempered Networks Tempts Users With Free Remote Access Offering
Tempered Networks lets you set up encrypted remote access for 25 devices for free with its new Airwall Teams offering.
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Heavy Networking 560: Moving Big Data Sets From Far-Off Locations
Construction sites generate tons of data but often lack network connectivity. Today's Heavy Networking explores how one CTO has found ways to move huge data sets to HQ and the cloud using everything from Free Space Optics to LTE to consumer broadband. There are also stories about flying drones and robot dogs, and the operational impacts of SD-WAN. Our guest is Michael Shepherd, CTO of Rogers-O’Brien Construction.
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Technology Must Be Net Pain Negative – Video
Day Two Cloud podcast co-host Ned Bellavance asks Envoy creator Matt Klein about the tipping point for certain tech. When do you need an API gateway? Egress control? A service mesh? Matt is a “keep it as simple as you can for as long as you can” sort of guy. Why adopt technology that doesn’t […]
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