Network Automation Hangout

Guest: Marcus Hines (Google)

Topics:

- Kubernetes-based Network Emulation (KNE)

Recorded live on 2021-10-14

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Guest: Daniel Teycheney (@danielteycheney)

Topics:

- Pulumi AWS Native provider: https://www.pulumi.com/blog/announcing-aws-native/

- Open Traffic Generator — common API for traffic generators: https://github.com/open-traffic-generator

- motherstarter — transformation of network inventory between different formats: https://github.com/writememe/motherstarter

- How to select the right tool for the network automation tasks

Recorded live on 2021-09-30

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Topics:

- Carl's newest project — Boxen, alternative to vrnetlab, which allows to package a network operating system VM in a container

- Vendors publishing native containers with their network operating system

- Using web framework to power network automation

- Central network automation controller vs security team

Recorded live on 2021-09-16

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Topics:

- Carl's experience with Pulumi compared to Terraform

- Converting Python scripts to Ansible playbooks

- Upskilling the team on network automation

Recorded live on 2021-09-02

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Topics:

- News about scrapligo, scraplicfg and scrapli-netconf in go

- How to deal with parsing snowflake outputs

- Software patterns, code maintenance and quality

Recorded live on 2021-08-19

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