Today we're happy to announce a new update to Ansible Tower CLI (link) that provides near 100% coverage of all REST functions within Ansible Tower from a CLI perspective. The CLI tool can also be imported and used as a library from other python programs. Tower CLI is open source, under the Apache 2.0 license, so it can be easily mixed into other projects, and we're also happy to take pull requests and ideas on this project.
The Coffee Break will be renamed to the "The Network Break" and will be getting its own channel on the Packet Pushers Network. But for this week, we talk about the latest news in networking and physical infrastructure.
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The Coffee Break will be renamed to the "The Network Break" and will be getting its own channel on the Packet Pushers Network. But for this week, we talk about the latest news in networking and physical infrastructure.
The post Coffee Break 12 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
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I’ve spent some time over the last few weeks playing around with VMware’s NSX product. In this post, I’d like to talk about getting the base NSX configuration done which we’ll build on in later posts. However, when I say ‘base’, I don’t mean from scratch. I’m going to start with a VMware environment that has the NSX manager and NSX controllers deployed already. Since there isn’t a lot of ‘networking’ in getting the manager and controllers deployed, I’m not going to cover that piece. But, if you do want to start from total scratch with NSX, see these great walk through from Chris Wahl and Anthony Burke…
Chris Wahl
http://wahlnetwork.com/2014/04/28/working-nsx-deploying-nsx-manager/
http://wahlnetwork.com/2014/05/06/working-nsx-assigning-user-permissions/
http://wahlnetwork.com/2014/06/02/working-nsx-deploying-nsx-controllers-via-gui-api/
http://wahlnetwork.com/2014/06/12/working-nsx-preparing-cluster-hosts/
Anthony Burke
http://networkinferno.net/installing-vmware-nsx-part-1
http://networkinferno.net/installing-vmware-nsx-part-2
http://networkinferno.net/installing-vmware-nsx-part-3
Both of those guys are certainly worth keeping an eye on for future NSX posts (they have other posts around NSX but I only included the ones above to get you to where I’m going to pick up).
So let’s talk about where I’m going to start from. My topology from where I’ll start looks like this…
Note: For reference I’m going to try and use the green Continue reading
What is the future of SDN Vendors ? Will all the startups eventually close down to just a few choices or can there be a vibrant ecosystem which can allow for many vendors to survive ? The discussion took a left turn and became an strong discussion of whether resellers will survive the arrival of SDN.
The post Priority Queue – SDN and The Reseller Channel appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
To run a program that uses a graphical user interface on a guest virtual machine running in the cloonix open-source network simulator, log into the guest VM from the host computer using SSH and forward the X11 display. Then, any X11 program you run on the guest VM using that SSH session, such as Wireshark, will display its X windows on the host computer.
First, we create a cloonix network simulation with at least one guest VM. In this example, we created three guest VMs named Cloon1, Cloon2, and Cloon3.
A cloonix network simulation with three guest VMs
See previous posts related to using cloonix, if you need help setting up the example network.
Open a new terminal window on the host computer. We do this so we can run X windows from the guests on the host. As discussed in the Cloonix v24 overview post, cloonix uses a patched version of the Dropbear SSH client so we use the dbssh command that is installed in the cloonix tree directory, ~/Netsims/cloonix-24.11.
The Dropbear SSH client automatically forwards X windows from the client machine to the server machine so Continue reading
The tutorial discuss the use of GNS3 software to run Cisco Virtual IOS (vIOS). Cisco vIOS is shipped and supported as a part of the Cisco's One Platform Kit (onePK) that is distributed in form of virtual machine. It might be downloaded with Cisco.com account. Currently, it is not required to have Cisco account associated with service contracts, Bill-to IDs, or product serial numbers in order to download onePK.
Here is a Linux bash script that helps you to extract vIOS vios-adventerprisek9-m.vmdk from all-in-one VM file. Download all-in-one.ova file from here and assign executable privileges to the script.
$ chmod +x extract_vios.txt
Then you can run the script as it is shown below. The only user input is selecting path to all-in-one VM file Continue reading
TAKE ACTION: Congress is trying sneak through a dangerous amendment that will kill Net Neutrality. Call right now: https://t.co/lmObQjG49N
— EFF (@EFF) July 15, 2014I’ve been working on Mellanox S-Series switches lately in a largish network with several hundred 10GbE server ports. On the whole, the product has performed beyond my cynically low expectations and the product has good capabilities overall but the command line interface (CLI) is a really poor user experience. How about this gem for configuring […]
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I had the good fortune last week to read a great post from Maish Saidel-Keesing (@MaishSK) that discussed security models in relation to candy. It reminded me that I’ve been wanting to discuss security models in relation to desserts. And since Maish got me hungry for a Snicker’s bar, I decided to lay out my ideas.
When we look at traditional security models of the past, everything looks similar to creme brûlée. The perimeter is very crunchy, but it protects a soft interior. This is the predominant model of the world where the “bad guys” all live outside of your network. It works when you know where your threats are located. This model is still in use today where companies explicitly trust their user base.
The creme brûlée model doesn’t work when you have large numbers of guest users or BYOD-enabled users. If one of them brings in something that escapes into the network, there’s nothing to stop it from wreaking havoc everywhere. In the past, this has caused massive virus outbreaks and penetrations from things like malicious USB sticks in the parking lot being activated on “trusted” computers internally.
A Slice Of Pie
A more modern security Continue reading
How Service Providers are Outpacing Enterprises in SDN Deployments
Service providers are well ahead of enterprises in SDN deployments. The numbers confirm this according to Jim Duffy in his Network World article “Enterprise SDN use lags service providers.” ACG Research estimates that sales of SDN products for live service provider deployments will reach $15.6 billion by 2018, while those that may become live will reach $29.5 billion. Use of production SDNs by enterprises and cloud/service provider data centers will be a fraction of that according to Infonetics Research: $3.1 billion by 2017.
Why are service providers so far ahead of enterprises? To paraphrase the oft-used political aphorism: It’s the business model, stupid. Duffy said it best in his article: “To service providers, the network is the business. To enterprises, the network enables or supports its core business.”
To a network service provider, technology is the revenue generator in a competitive market. Better solutions and better technology lead to lower costs (and more profits), and/or competitive differentiation.
Of course, competitive differentiators tend to become commodities over time, and we’ve seen that happen repeatedly Continue reading
While prepping for CCIE Data Center and playing around with a lab environment, I ran into a problem I’d like to share.
I was setting up a basic OTV setup with three VDCs running OTV, connecting to a core VDC running the multicast core (which is a lot easier than it sounds). I’m running it in a lab environment we have at Firefly, but I’m not going by our normal lab guide, instead making it up as I go along in order to save some time, and make sure I can stand up OTV without a lab guide.
Each VDC will set up an adjacency with the other two, with the core VDC providing unicast and multicast connectivity. That part was pretty easy to setup (even the multicast part, which had previously freaked me the shit out). Each VDC would be its own site, so no redundant AEDs.
On each OTV VDC, I setup the following as per my pre-OTV checklist:
BGP in the data center? And MPLS? Are you insane? Well, maybe, yes. But then again, I’ve been known to do a lot of crazy things in my time. Isn’t MPLS a core and edge service provider technology, while VXLAN is an enterprise data center technology? But let’s begin with this idea that technologies are […]
