Introduction to Pulumi for Infrastructure as Code Deployments
Introduction I’ve been itching to introduce Pulumi to you all for the longest time. I heard about Pulumi in the mid-point of 2021. At the time I was going through Microsoft AZ-700 studies and figured it would be fun to double up the learning and get my hands on Pulumi. Long story short, I really […]
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Heavy Networking 624: Solving Network Problems With Opmantek’s NMIS (Sponsored)
On today's sponsored Heavy Networking we speak with Opmantek, a FirstWave company. Opmantek's NMIS is a suite of network monitoring applications for managing fault, performance, configuration, compliance and automation. It supports multi-vendor, multi-tenant and multi-server solutions. We discuss the latest features and real-world use cases.
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Heavy Networking 624: Solving Network Problems With Opmantek’s NMIS (Sponsored)
On today's sponsored Heavy Networking we speak with Opmantek, a FirstWave company. Opmantek's NMIS is a suite of network monitoring applications for managing fault, performance, configuration, compliance and automation. It supports multi-vendor, multi-tenant and multi-server solutions. We discuss the latest features and real-world use cases.A Walk-Through Of Fortinet’s Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) Architecture
Fortinet’s Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) lets network and security teams enforce fine-grained access policies for users working remotely and in the office. It can control access to applications hosted on premises, in the public cloud, or delivered via SaaS. This post walks through the elements required to deploy ZTNA and offers advice on transitioning to a zero-trust approach.
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Day Two Cloud 140: Troubleshooting Cloud Outages With End-To-End Visibility (Sponsored)
On today’s sponsored Day Two Cloud episode with Cisco ThousandEyes, we discuss how to monitor what’s broken in public cloud services. With the right information, you can offer a nuanced, knowledgeable answer when executives want to know when the company’s crucial customer-facing app hosted on a bunch of cloud services is coming back online.HS019 Questions on Corporate Technology Strategy
What makes a technology strategy ? Where do you start ? Are you business or solution centric ? Being a leader means risk and funding, being a follower is simpler and faster. What questions should you be asking when establishing an IT strategy ? Heavy Strategy is where the questions are more important than the […]
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HS019 Questions on Corporate Technology Strategy
What makes a technology strategy ? Where do you start ? Are you business or solution centric ? Being a leader means risk and funding, being a follower is simpler and faster. What questions should you be asking when establishing an IT strategy ? Heavy Strategy is where the questions are more important than the... Read more »
HS018 API Management is a Configuration Problem
Johna believes that API management is part of IT operations. Greg doesn't understand the question and so we set off in search of answers.
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HS018 API Management is a Configuration Problem
Johna believes that API management is part of IT operations. Greg doesn't understand the question and so we set off in search of answers.
Understanding Data Center Fabrics 09: Other Considerations – Video
In the final video of this series on data center fabrics, Russ White walks through a set of considerations you might want to ponder as you design your data center fabric. These considerations include whether to single-home or dual-home a server in a fabric (it depends!), why Russ isn’t a fan of MLAGs in a […]
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Tech Bytes: Achieve SD-WAN Multicloud With Palo Alto Networks And Azure (Sponsored)
Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, which is expanding its cloud partnership by integrating with Azure to help customers achieve a multicloud strategy.
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Tech Bytes: Achieve SD-WAN Multicloud With Palo Alto Networks And Azure (Sponsored)
Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, which is expanding its cloud partnership by integrating with Azure to help customers achieve a multicloud strategy.Network Break 375: Aruba Networks Dives Into GreenLake; Okta Pins Incident On Outsourcer
Today's Network Break discusses Aruba Networks moving closer to HPE GreenLake with a new reseller-focused way to sell network gear, how data center design hampered fire fighting at an OVHcloud facility, Okta's response to a January security incident, Intel's request for US government dollars, and more IT news.Understanding Data Center Fabrics 08: Advanced Underlay Control Planes – Video
In this video, Russ White examines two advanced options for your underlay control plane: distoptflood and RIFT. He explores the basics of distopflood and RIFT, optimizations in distoptflood, centralized flooding, how RIFT works, and more. You can subscribe to the Packet Pushers’ YouTube channel for more videos as they are published. It’s a diverse a […]
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Understanding Data Center Fabrics 07: Link State Protocol In The Underlay – Video
Episode seven continues a discussion of fabric underlays by looking at the use of link-state protocols instead of BGP. Network architect and author Russ White covers: -Which link state protocol (IS-IS or OSPF) to choose -Russ’s reasons for preferring IS-IS -IS-IS efficiencies for packet formats and autoconfiguration -Resource recommendations for learning IS-IS -Scale and flooding […]
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Understanding Data Center Fabrics 06: BGP Underlay – Video
The sixth video in this series examines the underlay component of a data center fabric, touches on a theoretical discussion of network layers, and reviews the use of BGP as your underlay protocol. Russ White covers: -The notion of abstractions in a network and how they limit failure domains -Tradeoffs among surface, state, and optimization […]
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SQLModel For Network Engineers
Introduction I published a blog introducing relational databases for network engineers (linked below and here) on Packet Pushers. I would highly encourage readers unfamiliar with SQL and databases in general to take a look at that post before moving on. In this post we will focus on SQLModel and interacting with databases using the python […]
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Heavy Networking 623: Growing From Junior To Senior Engineer
Today's Heavy Networking is a roundtable conversation about career growth. Maybe your title is junior engineer, but you want to be a senior engineer. Be careful what you wish for! Maybe your title is junior but you feel you’re doing the job of a senior. Are you really? How would you justify this to your manager? We address these and other questions and issues including certs vs. experience, paying dues, the importance of communication skills, and more.
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Heavy Networking 623: Growing From Junior To Senior Engineer
Today's Heavy Networking is a roundtable conversation about career growth. Maybe your title is junior engineer, but you want to be a senior engineer. Be careful what you wish for! Maybe your title is junior but you feel you’re doing the job of a senior. Are you really? How would you justify this to your manager? We address these and other questions and issues including certs vs. experience, paying dues, the importance of communication skills, and more.Understanding Data Center Fabrics 05: Butterfly Scaling – Video
Episode of this series focuses on the butterfly fabric. While similar to a Clos fabric, the butterfly design is built around pods of switches. In this video, Russ White explains the differences in the butterfly design, physical limitations for ToR switches, how to scale the fabric to thousands of available ports without using chassis switches, […]
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