It was a typical morning, and I, a network engineer, found myself staring at a user’s PC that was acting up. The network was sluggish, conne…

Hey there! Today we will be building a cheat sheet to facilitate using some very helpful tools for network automation. This helps us get som…

Introduction As network engineers, we often deal with large datasets like IP addresses or subnets. Efficiently searching through these datas…

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Docker will be very useful for our future network automation tests and labs, so we will have a quick walk-through on how I set up my environ…

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The fundamentals of network design are the essential elements that all network designers must understand and know how to apply. These elemen…

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Welcome to our first post in a comprehensive series that will explore in detail what Network Design is. In this series, we will dive into th…

In this post, I want to discuss one of OSPF's most important building blocks. 💡 When learning routing protocols, the most important step t…

This article explores some of Python's essential functions—enumerate(), reversed(), zip(), map(), filter(), sorted(), and lambda—showing how…

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# Outline: Basics Tips I Want to Remember As I continue to work with Docker, I find that many useful commands and concepts and overall conta…

While trying to wrap my head around some of the NetBox database relationships, I wished for a database schema diagram. I looked through the …

Introduction to Network Automation This chapter delves into the fundamentals of network automation with Nornir, a powerful Python-based fram…

Introduction In network automation, a "source of truth" is vital for managing and automating network devices, IP addresses, and connectivity…

Problem Statement The other day I had a situation where I had two Windows machines from work that I wanted to transfer some big files (Bigge…