Hyperglance: Visualising ALL of your IT infrastructure
In this modern world where the whole IT industry is pondering what the next steps, trends and operational requirements will be, one thing is sure, we’re in an era of collaboration and integration....
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Git For Network Engineers
What is Git? Git is a source control manager (SCM), also known as revision control. It manages changes to documents, computer programs and large websites. Arbitrarily it can manage versioning for...
View ArticleValidating and Searching JSON
When it comes to dealing with network automation, you can find yourself battling with many things, including dealing with XML and JSON data structures as you build apps that consume or spit out data....
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NetDevOps: Delivering Network Levers
As a recent transition from the VAR side of the room to that of the vendor, it’s been eye opening and a great reset experience to view the world from a previously unexperienced angle. Truly. Just for...
View ArticleKiller SDN Applications: A view in 2015
Whilst on the DLR in London earlier this year (2015) a set of thoughts came to light whilst pondering centralised decision making for part of a network. It’s not uncommon to hear “Product X is a great...
View ArticleNFV, Skills & Mutable vs. Immutable Infrastructure
This blog article was inspired by some infuriating reads and blogs doing the rounds doing significant damage to business thinking. I’ve heard so many conversations that confuse Software Defined...
View ArticleAutomation: Build or Consume? [Edited]
The question of “home grown vs. off the shelf” comes up a lot. It comes up both in a professional capacity and social. Home grown, usually born out of frustration to solve an immediate problem, often...
View ArticleStackStorm: Ghost2logger Pack
Coinciding (roughly) with the version 2.2 release of StackStorm, the Ghost2logger pack has been released. This pack provides in essence a “Syslog sensor” that provides the user a tuple match on a...
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Declarative and Imperative Automation Thinking
Event driven or workflow driven automation for the uninitiated can appear daunting. With the rise of machine learning which adds more complexity to our field, simple rule driven automation feels more...
View ArticleNetwork Automation Engineer Persona: Part Four
Part three introduced the first three key skills. This part presents the introduction to the last three core skills and a call to action. Key Skill Four I’m trying very hard to refrain from using the...
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Automation: Flow Control & Dimensionality
Human beings as we are, struggle sometimes to think multi-dimensionally about tasks. Our brains seem to have a conscious layer and a sub-conscious layer. Whether you think in words, noise or images,...
View ArticleReplacing a Network Element Config System with Git
In this post I’ll explore replacing the heart of a network operating system’s configuration mechanism with the software developers take on version control. It can be argued that network operating...
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[1/4] Composition & Service Function Chaining in Network Service Meshes
This is part one of a series of posts on Application Composition within Network Service Meshes, otherwise known as Service Function Chaining, but at L7 and not L3/L4. In Network Service Meshes (NSM),...
View Article[2/4] Composition & Service Function Chaining in Network Service Meshes
Not Storing State in the Network OpenFlow (OF) adoption failed due to scalability of forwarding tables on ASICS, not so great controllers, lack of applications and a non-existent community. OpenFlow...
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[3/4] Composition & Service Function Chaining in Network Service Meshes
Application De-Composition Applications are ever evolving and so are the architecture patterns: MONOLITH -> MICROSERVICES -> FUNCTIONS + FLOWS Monoliths were easy. Route to them and send the...
View Article[4/4] Composition & Service Function Chaining in Network Service Meshes
Following the Path Welcome to part four of this series. This this final part, we will explore our options for networking a composed application, from a de-composed monolith or set of microservices....
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