Agnostic Network Automation Examples with Ansible and Juniper NRE Labs

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On February 10th, The NRE Labs project launched four Ansible Network Automation exercises, made possible by Red Hat and Juniper Networks.  This blog post covers job responsibilities of an NRE, the goal of Juniper’s NRE Labs, and a quick overview of new exercises and the concepts Red Hat and Juniper are jointly demonstrating.  The intended audience for these initial exercises is someone new to Ansible Network Automation with limited experience with Ansible and network automation. The initial network topology for these exercises covers Ansible automating Juniper Junos OS and Cumulus VX virtual network instances.

 

About NRE Labs

Juniper has defined an NRE or network reliability engineer, as someone that can help an organization with modern network automation.  This concept has many different names including DevOps for networks, NetDevOps, or simply just network automation.  Juniper and Red Hat realized that this skill set is new to many traditional network engineers and worked together to create online exercises to help folks get started with Ansible Network Automation.  Specifically, Juniper worked with us through NRE Labs, a project they started and co-sponsor that offers a no-strings-attached, community-centered initiative to bring the skills of automation within reach Continue reading

Network Break 270: Google Reports Cloud Revenues; HPE Acquires Cloud Security Startup Scytale

Take a Network Break! Google breaks out cloud revenue for the first time, Cisco tackles significant CDP vulnerabilities, HPE buys a cloud security startup, the Trump administration ponders an all-American 5G, and more tech news.

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MWC Barcelona Hit by Coronavirus

GSMA, the event organizer, claims the event will still get underway in less than two weeks, but...

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Hack Week: How Docker Drives Innovation from the Inside

Since its founding, Docker’s mission has been to help developers bring their ideas to life by conquering the complexity of app development. With millions of Docker developers worldwide, Docker is the de facto standard for building and sharing containerized apps. 

So what is one source of ideas we use to simplify the lives of developers? It starts with being a company of software developers who builds products for software developers. One of the more creative ways Docker has been driving innovation internally is through hackathons. These hackathons have proven to be a great platform for Docker employees to showcase their talent and provide unique opportunities for teams across Docker’s business functions to come together. Our employees get to have fun while creating solutions to problems that simplify the lives of Docker developers.

At Docker, our engineers are always looking for ways to improve their own workflows so as to ship quality code faster. Hack Week gives us a chance to explore the boundaries of what’s possible, and the winning ‘hacks’ make their way into our products to benefit our global developer community.

-Scott Johnston, Docker CEO

With that context, let’s break down how Docker runs employee hackathons. Docker is Continue reading

Is the future both off AND on premises ?

Originally Published in the Human Infrastructure Magazine in December 2017.  Sign up here, its free Is the future both off AND on premises ? With the smoke clearing from the 21-gun salute delivered at AWS’ conference this week where a barrage of applications and services were announced, I was reading a transcript of Cisco executive […]

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OCP Global Summit 2020 to Inspire Adoption of Open Technology

The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP), a collaborative community focused on redesigning...

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Book Giveaway Winners

As you know couple days ago I announced that I will giveaway 3 of my books to 10 people. In this post, you will see the names of the winners. Thanks for the all participants and I am glad to share my efforts with the community. Also I have many new connections who I can provide useful content by the time. At the end of the post, you will see another surprise by me!

 

 

 

 

1022 people liked it, some of them was 2nd level connection while they liked, and some of them applied after 11pm gmt+3 on Sunday Feb9, 2020. Thus, 894 people were counted as eligible.

Random name picker on https://commentpicker.com/random-name-picker.php was used to pick the names.

List of the people who won the books as below. We will be connecting them to learn which book they want to receive from us.

 

  1. Akinfemi Akinyanju
  2. Dennis Krulac
  3. Vannaro Mao
  4. Navid Yahyapour
  5. Vuthha Seang
  6. Marius Viotel Nastasa
  7. Luca Banfo
  8. Ahsan Mateen
  9. Abderrahmane Bendaoud
  10. Siva Ntshobane
  11. Hassan Shah

 

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Segment Routing (SR) and Topology Independent Loop Free Alternates (TI-LFA)

In this blog we will we will introduce Topology Independent - Loop Free Alternates (TI-LFA). TI-LFA...

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Software-defined data center and what’s the way to do it

SDDC – Software-Defined Data Centers Times of Software Defined everything has long since arrived, the need to implement many appliances, two or more for each network function, is not so popular anymore. The possibility to manage packet forwarding, load balancing and security of network traffic inside the datacenter from one simple web console is showing finally that things can be managed in a simpler way after all. All vendors in the networking world tried to come up with their own way of centralizing data center management, as it ends up, all of them did it, some better than the others.

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Announcing the Slates of Candidates for the 2020 Board of Trustees Elections

As Chair of the Internet Society Nominations Committee, I am pleased to announce the slates of candidates for the 2020 Board of Trustees elections. The candidates for each slate are listed below in alphabetical order by last name.

Chapters Election (two seats available)

  • Satish Babu
  • Maymouna Diop
  • Luis Miguel Martinez
  • Glenn McKnight
  • Amir Qayyum
  • Roberto Zambrana

Organization Members Election (one seat available)

  • Olivier Alais
  • Ted Hardie

Additional nominations for election to the Board of Trustees may be made by petition by the candidate, and filed with the Chair of the Nominations Committee using the online form available at the Petitions page: https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/elections/2020/petitions/

The deadline for receipt of petition requests is Friday, 21 February at 15:00 UTC. The deadline for petition signatures is Friday, 28 February at 15:00 UTC. The names of any successful petitioners will be placed on the ballot. The final candidate slate will be announced on Monday, 2 March and voting will open on Thursday, 19 March.

Learn more about the candidates and the elections, including the petition process at: https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/elections/

The Committee thanks all of the nominees who expressed interest and willingness to serve on the Internet Society Board of Trustees.

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Be Careful When Using New Features

During a recent workshop I made a comment along the lines “be careful with feature X from vendor Y because it took vendor Z two years to fix all the bugs in a very similar feature”, and someone immediately asked “are you saying it doesn’t work?”

My answer: “I never said that, I just drew inferences from other people’s struggles.”

A Step Back

Networking operating systems are probably some of the most complex pieces of software out there. Distributed systems are hard. Real-time distributed systems are even harder. Real-time distributed systems running on top of eventually-consistent distributed databases are extra fun.

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Watching you watch: the tracking system of over-the-top TV streaming devices

Watching you watch: the tracking ecosystem of over-the-top TV streaming devices, Moghaddam et al., CCS’19

The results from this paper are all too predictable: channels on Over-The-Top (OTT) streaming devices are insecure and riddled with privacy leaks. The authors quantify the scale of the problem, and note that users have even less viable defence mechanisms than they do on web and mobile platforms. When you watch TV, the TV is watching you.

In this paper, we examine the advertising and tracking ecosystems of Over-The-Top ("OTT") streaming devices, which deliver Internet-based video content to traditional TVs/display devices. OTT devices refer to a family of services and devices that either directly connect to a TV (e.g., streaming sticks and boxes) or enable functionality within a TV (e.g. smart TVs) to facilitate the delivery of Internet-based video content.

The study focuses on Roku and Amazon Fire TV, which together account for between 59% and 65% of the global market. The top 1000 channels from each service are analysed using a custom-built crawling engine, and traffic is intercepted where possible using mitmproxy.

How they did it

For each service, a list of the top 1000 channels was compiled, as Continue reading

Predictive maintenance via IoT offers big upsides, but few easy wins

Predictive maintenance is, arguably, the most hyped application of IoT technology currently available to the enterprise user, and it’s easy to understand why: Getting greater insight into industrial machinery, fleets of vehicles or anything else that can be digitally instrumented seems to offer a fairly direct path to savings through lower maintenance costs and less downtime.But it’s not as simple as just grafting sensors onto existing equipment, according to experts, and reaping the benefits of predictive maintenance isn’t an automatic win for the asset-heavy businesses that can profit most from this IoT implementation.To read this article in full, please click here

5 firewall features IT pros should know about but probably don’t

Firewalls continuously evolve to remain a staple of network security by incorporating functionality of standalone devices, embracing network-architecture changes, and integrating outside data sources to add intelligence to the decisions they make – a daunting wealth of possibilities that is difficult to keep track of.Because of this richness of features, next-generation firewalls are difficult to master fully, and important capabilities sometimes can be, and in practice are, overlooked.Here is a shortlist of new features IT pros should be aware of.To read this article in full, please click here

5 firewall features IT pros should know about but probably don’t

Firewalls continuously evolve to remain a staple of network security by incorporating functionality of standalone devices, embracing network-architecture changes, and integrating outside data sources to add intelligence to the decisions they make – a daunting wealth of possibilities that is difficult to keep track of.Because of this richness of features, next-generation firewalls are difficult to master fully, and important capabilities sometimes can be, and in practice are, overlooked.Here is a shortlist of new features IT pros should be aware of.To read this article in full, please click here

Rising sales tide lifts Intel and AMD

The fourth quarter of the calendar year tends to be great for component makers like Intel and AMD because of holiday consumer sales, but this most recent Q4 period saw them both enjoy bang-up server sales, too.Q4 was “kind of a quirky quarter,” said Dean McCarron of Mercury Research. Intel gained share overall, while AMD gained share in server, desktop and notebook markets. How? Increased demand across the board, for starters, at a time when customers aren’t typically buying servers.“The only surprise was how strong the quarter was,” McCarron said. “It was a very strong fourth quarter, multiple records were set. The main ones that count were: server revenues were records for Intel and AMD, and total CPU record.”To read this article in full, please click here

Deep Sea Diving

There is something quite compelling about engineering a piece of state-of-the-art technology that is intended to be dropped off a boat and then operate flawlessly for the next twenty-five years or more in the silent depths of the world's oceans! It brings together advanced physics, marine technology and engineering to create some truly amazing pieces of netw2orking infrastructure.

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Money Moves: January 2020

Arista networks buys Big Switch; VMware acquires AIOps vendor Nyansa to bolster SD-WAN; plus the...

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