Look, I get asked this question constantly in my training sessions: “Why should I bother learning network automation when I can just SSH into my devices?” And honestly, if you’re still thinking that way in… Read More »pyATS Blog 1: What is Network Automation and Why Cisco pyATS
Understanding Cisco Segment Routing: What It Is and Why You Need to Know It Right, let’s talk about segment routing. Now, I know what you’re thinking – “Great, another technology to learn.” But here’s the… Read More »Cisco CCNP SPCOR Blog 4 Segment Routing Overview
Complete Blog Series Right, let’s get straight to it. You’re here because you want to pass the Cisco CCNP SPCOR exam, and frankly, it’s not an easy one. I’ve been working with service provider networks… Read More »Cisco CCNP SPCOR – Complete Blog Series Index
Process for Adding IPv6 Addresses With Ansible Hello And welcome to this next video in the CCIE service provider lab series. Okay So what we’re going to tackle in this one is we’re going to… Read More »Adding IPv6 Addresses with Ansible to the CCIE Service Provider Lab
CCIE Service Provider Practice Lab – Topology, Resources, and What You Can Actually Do With It This post goes alongside the video walkthrough for the CCIE Service Provider practice lab. Cisco have done something quite… Read More »Cisco CCIE Service provider Pratice Lab
Hello and welcome to the seventh video in our Ansible workbook series where we will look at iBGP with Ansible along side Juniper ospf.and following on directly from Lab-06. As we can see here, another… Read More »Ansible Lab 07 Configuring Juniper OSPF & Cisco iBGP with Ansible
In this post, we’re going to cover the process of OSPF configuration with Ansible and Jinja2 templates for Cisco routers, based on the setup in Lab 06 and is a direct follow on from Lab… Read More »OSPF configuration with Ansible and Jinja2 templates Lab 06
Ansible Workbook 05 – Multi-Vendor Ansible Configuration for Cisco and Juniper Welcome to Workbook 05 in my Ansible series. In this session, I’m moving beyond basic device automation and tackling multi-vendor environments, focusing on Ansible… Read More »Workbook 05 Ansible Configuration for Cisco and Juniper Loops and With Statements
lets have a blast with automating server configuration In this post, we’ll cover the fourth lab in the Ansible series, focusing our routers and automating server configuration for NTP (Network Time Protocol). This lab introduces… Read More »Ansible Lab 04 Automating Server Configuration and Routers NTP
Automating Network Configuration with Ansible In this post, we’ll dive into the third lab of our Ansible automation series, where we will be automating network configuration, namely IPv4 address configuration for edge and main routers.… Read More »Ansible Lab 03 IP Address Configuration and Loopbacks