In this post I will show how to use IETF, OpenConfig and vendor-specific YANG models in Ansible to configure BGP peering and verify state of physical interfaces between IOS-XE and JUNOS devices.
Continue readingIt’s our pleasure to start the week off announcing the release of FRRouting to the open community. We worked closely with several other partners to make this launch happen and we’ll be integrating it with our products in upcoming releases. It’s a constant priority of ours to ensure we are contributing, maintaining and inspiring contributions to the community, and this release truly provides a solution that will be welcomed from many industries.
The following post was originally published on the Linux Foundation’s blog. They have graciously given us permission to republish, as the post does a fantastic job of describing the release. We’ve added a few sentences at the end to tie it all together. We hope you enjoy.
One of the most exciting parts of being in this industry over the past couple of decades has been witnessing the transformative impact that open source software has had on IT in general and specifically on networking. Contributions to various open source projects have fundamentally helped bring the reliability and economics of web-scale IT to organizations of all sizes. I am happy to report the community has taken yet another step forward with FRRouting.
FRRouting (FRR) is an IP routing protocol suite Continue reading
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Sitting in the conference room, I looked up at the whiteboard covered in a clever design. I hadn’t understood the design immediately, but then as my mentor explained it to me, I comprehended the brilliance of it.
“That was…that was clever. Really. Elegant even. I never would have come up with that on my own. I learned something from you today, and I appreciate it. Thanks for taking the time.”
“Oh, I can’t take credit for the design. I got most of it from this book here. If anything, the credit goes to the author.”
And so I took a look at the book, and searched online for the author’s name. Her information popped up in my browser, and I sent her an e-mail.
“Thanks for the design you recommended in your book. It’s very clever, and we’re going to be testing it for use in our company. I think you’ve solved some problems for us. We really appreciate it.”
After a few days, her reply came back.
“Naturally, I’m happy that the book is a benefit to you, but honestly, that design is a reflection of an interview I had with a research team. They did all the heavy lifting and Continue reading
CORD remains a radical notion but is gaining traction with service providers.
Ansible Tower 3.1 adds a variety of new features that make it easier than ever to share and scale IT automation. Tower now includes multi-Playbook workflows to streamline jobs, clustering to easily scale-out Tower instances, enhanced search and more.
For this post, we asked members of the Tower engineering team to highlight what’s new with the latest release and share what they're most excited about.
Tim Cramer, Senior Director of Engineering, shares a quick overview of the Tower 3.1 enhancements designed to help teams harness the power of Ansible automation across servers, applications, environments and networks:
Matt Jones, Principal Software Engineer, explains how scale-out clustering enables you to support a larger number of Tower jobs:
Chris Meyers, Senior Software Engineer, describes how Tower's new multi-Playbook workflows promote greater re-use of existing job templates and allow you to build a CI/CD testing workflow:
“One of the things we are most excited about in Ansible Tower 3.1 is localization. This is the first release of Tower that has been localized. Tower is now available in Japanese and French. We went through a lot of thought as to where we wanted Continue reading
[Editor’s Note: A limited number of student grants are available to help pay for travel, accommodations, and NDSS Symposium registration fees for full-time students attending the 24th annual Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium. Watch the NDSS website at https://www.internetsociety.org/events/ndss-symposium for information and deadlines as the process opens for NDSS 2018 in February of next year. The following post is a guest contribution from one 2017 grantee.]