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🚀 New Blog Post: "Redux: Wireless Conversion" 📝🔌
Reflecting on my experience deploying Guest WiFi for retail sites, I explore how modern tools like Nautobot can streamline wireless LAN controller migrations.
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🌐 New Blog Post! 🌐
Explore the power of Atomic Transactions within Nautobot Jobs. Learn how to maintain data integrity and ensure successful job executions. Check out the post here: https://josh-v.com/nautobot-atomic-jobs/
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New: Writing a #Nornir application that requires access to secret information (which shouldn't be in the inventory source)? The Transform function is designed precisely for this. Learn more:
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In the second installment of my "What I Would Do Differently" series, I explore how I would approach WAN design differently today, considering the evolving needs of modern networks and #NetworkAutomation capabilities.
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Taking the time to re-read the manual (or browse online docs) can reveal gems you might have missed. This morning, I discovered how to add share buttons to pages using the mkdocs-material docs.
josh-v.com now has share buttons (including for Mastodon) on all of the blog posts.
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I've been diving into #NetworkAutomation for years, and things have definitely changed. Check out my latest blog post on what I would do differently in 2024. 🌐
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A post on using #Nautobot Custom Links to be able to navigate to those other systems related to the device. Sometimes you just need to have that other system. Such as a link to the Git backup of config by #GoldenConfig app. Powerful customization!
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I very much enjoy hearing that content I have created is helping people out. The latest today was my post on using an ENV file with #Nautobot pip install.
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Was working on a post on how to install CML on Ubuntu desktop this weekend. As I got to the part that things were dicey in the past, low and behold that the installation covered what was done manually for a bridge interface. Blog post needs are no longer. I may still publish soon though.
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Over the weekend I started a series that I plan on going deeper on developing Nautobot Apps. The first post on introduction of the Nautobot Cookiecutter for starting Nautobot Apps. This is the way to get started and it has never been easier to get started with your own apps and API endpoints for networking.
https://josh-v.com/nautobot-app-baking-cookies/
What do you want to build for your applications? Anything else you want to see covered in future posts?
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Off to a good start writing wise in 2024. It's going to be a fun year for me, deep within #NetworkAutomation and #NetDevOps. It is an ever maturing and exciting environment.
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Reminder, Tuesday morning CDT, the NTC Templates will have a major release. There are many breaking changes. See https://github.com/networktocode/ntc-templates/blob/master/changes_for_4.md for more details.
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Absolutely blown away and impressed with what the team has built for #Nautobot using the Golden Config plugin to do configuration remediation. Take a look at the webinar replay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0HtRBSEjqY
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I put together a few thoughts on
network #WAN design, taking a look at how adding more circuits/devices may help or hinder availability. -
Using #Nautobot and looking to simplify the environment variables? Or need to get to using environment variables a bit more? I've summarized the common practice of using an environment file to store the environment variables, and then how to load them into your systemd processes.
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How to upgrade your #Nautobot Python version, if you are unable to build out a new host for the updating Python version.
https://josh-v.com/upgrade-nautobot-python-version-in-virtual-machine/
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Now available, the #Nautobot Floor Plan plugin! Be able to put your racks onto a floor plan representing your network! A good start!
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Well, it's Prime Day today, and I'm getting in on the action this year with a new desktop build, with the primary goal of running some large VMs/Arista cEOS, doing a bit more local development, and a few #DevNet studies.
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Weekend reading, how to get an IP address about a network device from #Nautobot!
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Have a Hashicorp Vault environment? Looking to get to the secrets from there to connect with Nautobot? I dive down a bit deeper into demoing what components of the Vault connect to where on #Nautobot in my latest post - https://josh-v.com/nautobot-secrets-hashicorp-vault/
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Thoroughly disappointed in what the #amazon shipping has done to the shipping industry. Previously #UPS would have given me every step and time stamp. Instead I get the shipment label create time and the last scan only. #GoingBackwards
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Been a productive day all together so far.
- Tested out with the kiddos if the new house yard would work as a sled hill ✅
- Fair sized PR in to make a fix on Nautobot's Docker Compose library ✅
- Making some good progress on a new plugin feature for #Nautobot (not quite ready to announce more than that) ☑️ -
In between writing a bit of code this weekend I put together a blog post about how to use GraphQL's alias feature. Powerful stuff!
https://josh-v.com/graphql-aliasing/
Let me know your thoughts!
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New to the docs of #Nautobot (one of my PRs!) is that the copy buttons now have proper copying. It went from having the prompt in the markdown block to just the actual command!
Check it out:
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With joining a new platform, I want to have an early black Friday sale on my book Open Source Network Automation! Get it for 20% off now on LeanPub using the link below.
This is a step by step guide to walk you into using modern Open Source Network Management tools such as #Nautobot, Hashicorp #Vault, and getting modern Time Series Database set up with #Telegraf, #Prometheus, and #Grafana!
#neteng #netdevops
https://leanpub.com/opensourcenetworkmanagement/c/PNe7O4tcG7v4