The state of the networking industry is undergoing a transformation. Both hardware and software have given way to the realization that applications and infrastructure are less about the individual functions of the sub-components of the overall system and more about the workflows that are being expressed against the technology as a whole.
Workflows, however, are also sub-components of the overall business logic that is being described, and ultimately expressed against the infrastructure. Micro-services and/or services oriented architectures are fundamentally changing many facets of technology, both in business practice and in features and functionality of the technology. They’re enabling a more agile and flexible technological landscape, and are helping to define administrative boundaries with respect to overall operations of the infrastructure.
Impact on Infrastructure
When looking at technology overall there is an obvious pattern emerging in all realms of the hardware that is enabling the industry. Programmability: the desire to express logic against infrastructure much in the same way that we’re able to express logic in the context of an application. “Infrastructure as code” is a phrase I’m sure we’ve all heard over the last couple of years, and this is something that is definitely being attained with the ecosystem of Continue reading
I’m just spending the day trying to get my head around some very basic automation, so I thought I would install Python 2.7 and work through some of the tutorials on the Techwiki to see how I get on.
The tutorial I’m following is called Python for Non-Programmers and offers an easy way in for people like me. Of course as with a lot of open-source stuff, you don’t just download Python and get started – there are various dependencies, and dependencies with dependencies that you need to install first. If at the end of all that you’ve not forgotten what your name is or why you were doing all this shenanigans in the first place you can count yourself as winning.
Installation on a Windows machine is documented nicely here, but there are a few things which are out of date.
One part where it tells you run an executable to install ‘lxml’ but there isn’t one when you click the link provided. So instead you need to install it with a program called pip, which can be found in C:Python27scripts by default. pip is not in the PATH envirronment variable by default Continue reading
A long long time ago Colin Dixon wrote the following tweet in response to my Controller Cluster Is a Single Failure Domain blog post:
He’s obviously right, but I wasn’t talking about interconnected domains, but failure domains (yeah, I know, you could argue they are the same, but do read on).
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Loving this regex at the moment!
show int description | i 9/[1-2].1..
Te9/1.107 up up XXXX
Te9/1.111 up up XXXX
Te9/2.106 up up XXXX
Te9/2.110 up up XXXX
Help me see subinterfaces allocated on transit interfaces fairly simply.