Running Cisco Antares-1B Locally (macOS / Apple Silicon)
A working start-to-finish guide to running Cisco Foundation AI’s Antares-1B vulnerability localization model on Apple Silicon — including the one non-obvious BF16 conversion step that will otherwise waste your afternoon.
My Network Talks To Me – Literally!
This next post may seem like science fiction. I woke up this morning and checked that my output files – MP3 files – really did exist and that I actually made my Cisco network “talk” to me! This post is right out of Star Trek so strap yourse
Creating Your Own Network Automation ChatBot with Discord, Ansible, and Genie/pyATS!
As you may know I love to play with new toys. I especially love connecting new toys with my old toys. What you may not know is that I am also an avid World of Warcraft fan and player! In order to run what are known as “raids”, group content
Is Your Network At Risk – Automating the Cisco PSIRT with Genie and Ansible
The security of my network keeps me up at night. Honestly it does. We live in a world where enterprise networks are defending themselves against state-sponsored attacks. But what do attackers look for? Typically, open, well-known, vulnerabi
Cisco Facts – A Collection of Ansible IOS / NXOS Facts and Genie Parsing Playbooks
Cisco DevNet Code Exchange has published my repository ! Here you can easily start capturing Ansible Facts for IOS and NXOS and transform the JSON into CSV and Markdown ! Also included are a bunch of valuable Genie parsed show commands whic
A Recipe For Success – Using Ansible to Transform Cisco Data Centre Facts into Business-Ready Documentation
One of my favourite recipes is the Hakuna Frittata both because not only am I a big fan of puns, I also enjoy this hearty vegetarian meal that even I can handle putting together. Inspired by this simple recipe I have decided to try and docu
Prevent an Intrusion – Run the Recommended Version!
In the wake of some very high profile IT security breaches and state sponsored attacks using compromised software today I wrote some infrastructure as code Ansible playbooks to create some business-ready documentation to help us understand
Sign on the Dotted Line
Layer 9 issues – finance – are often some of the most challenging a network engineer faces. Contract management can be particularly difficult in any scale organization especially if you are not “sole source” purchasing. Serial numbers and c
Excitement
And he’s right! I can’t stop making new GitHub repositories with Genie parsed show commands to documentation! Like show ip interface brief as seen above!
My current toolkit
“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”― Marshall McLuhan My first attempt at network automation I used the tools that I had used to manage infrastructure with for the past 20+ years. A file editor
Just the facts ma’am
Infrastructure as Code and Network Automation – Where to Start Learning any new skill takes time, patience, a willingness to try and fail, and ideally continuously learn and grow from our mistakes until we grow more and more proficient. The
DevNet Create 2020 – North American Spotlight
I am so incredibly fortunate to have been able to share my automation journey with Cisco DevNet Create this year ! In this discussion a very safe roadmap for automation success is discussed – check it out! Start at 1:55