Show IP Interface Brief – Reimagining in 3D
Remember this CLI output? Using real network data I’ve reimagined the Show IP Interface Brief command as an Interactive 3D World! Complete with indicators making it easy to see if an Interface is Healthy or Not! [verge3d id=”1170″] https://
My First Pure-Python Network Automation with pyATS / Genie !
I am very proud of this next piece of infrastructure as code for a few reasons. It addresses the problems with performance and speed at scale I’ve had with my current methodology and tools (Ansible) I feel like I am ready to “graduate” from
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
Collaboration is the key to automation success – A Genie Success Story
I’ve been on about a three year journey with network automation and while I have had great personal and technical success – my organization and most of those outside my immediate day-to-day circle are still shackled to the ‘old’ way of doin
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!
Letting the Genie out of the bottle
Using Genie Cisco show commands can be transformed into REST API-like requests with structured JSON responses.
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
Packet Pushers Heavy Networking 545: Achieving Automated Network State Validation
*This* one was amazing! Ethan and I clicked very well and have a real thoughtful discussion and reflection about network state validation, automation, and what it means to be an network engineer (or are we even still network engineers?) in