Josh VanDeraa

I’m a veteran Network Engineer who has finally caught on how to put together CS teachings with a Networking degree.

One of the great things about building an enterprise system, is being able to get systems to work cohesively amongst themselves to bring a complete solution.

One of the features that I find myself using periodically that I think is underrated as far as using GraphQL is its ability to alias return keys in the response.

One of my favorite things to do as I get started with writing a piece of automation or code, is to lay out the design with pseudo code in the form of comments.

This is a topic that I’m fairly opinionated on as of late is looking at what should be maintained within an inventory and the strategy of how to set up the inventory.

This week Cisco announced the DevNet Expert certification exam.

One of the best features of Nautobot as a Network Automation Platform is the ability to create your own custom code.

Earlier this month I was able to hit the publish button on a new book - Open Source Network Management.

All of the work through the modules thus far in the series have brought us to what we all want to see.

A device type is the next piece in the Nautobot Device onboarding requirements.

A device role is aptly named, the role of the device.

Platforms are an optional item when adding devices into Nautobot.

Adding your manufacturers via code is the easy way to get started with your Nautobot devices.

This post dives into the Nautobot Ansible Content Collection sites module to create/update a Site.

This is the first post as I shift into taking a closer look at the Nautobot Ansible Collection.

All of the work through the modules thus far in the series have brought us to what we all want to see.

A device type is the next piece in the NetBox Device onboarding requirements.

A device role is aptly named, the role of the device.

Platforms are an optional item when adding devices into NetBox.

Adding your manufacturers via code is the easy way to get started with your NetBox devices.

This post dives into the NetBox Ansible Content Collection module to create/update a Site.

The NetBox lookup plugin is to get information out of NetBox for use within Ansible.

The documentation can be found on ReadTheDocs.

Recently I had some discussions with Nick Russo on some URL redirection changes he was making for his content.

This originates from a conversation had on Twitter about how to get the IP Prefix information from an IPAM tool, specifically NetBox using Ansible.

There does not appear to be a complete set of documentation pieces available for setting up Prometheus on the Home Assistant platform.

I’ve changed a few things on the site.

In an earlier post I took a look at how to setup EVE-NG to get access to virtualized network devices and topologies.

One of the appealing features that I have towards working with Ansible is that it is able to automate components across the entire Enterprise IT stacks.

Docker is a terrific solution for making a consistent working environment.

Today I’m going to walk through the newest part of my personal workflow for working with projects.

In this post I will be taking a look at some of the usability setup of managing Cisco IOS devices with the Ansible Cisco IOS User Module.

This has become a post about the ios_interfaces module with documentation that can be found Ansible ios_interfaces doc.

This will be a brief departure from the automation focused attention that I have been giving to this blog over the past year or so.

In an earlier post I covered the differences between ios_config and cli_config.

As I restarted looking at how I’m continuing my education on the Network Automation and certification realm I asked the question “How are you simulating your network environment?”

In this post I’m going to be taking a deeper dive into the new in Ansible 2.8 IOS BGP module.

Today we are taking a look at the newest module out for Cisco ASA Ansible module - asa_og.

Today will be a touch shorter post, but it is good to be back at it.

Today I’m going to take a look at a method to be able to save the configuration of a Cisco device to NVRAM (copy run start).

Update: ios_interface is to be deprecated as of Ansible 2.13 In this post I will be taking a deeper look at the ios_interface module.

Back to it finally.

Today’s post is going to be a short and sweet one (unless I get to writing two).

In this post we will talk about primarily three components that will work together to get structured data out of the command line of a Cisco device.

This is a post that I’m going to review some of the differences between the ios_config module and the new cli_config module within Ansible networking.

You have decided to move forward with using/trying Ansible.

Discontiguous masks are something that is going to be somewhat historic within the network design toolbox.

In a recent podcast there was some discussion that it sounded like the term Micro Segmentation was being used where it was really traditional segmentation.

Life always gets busy.

Why this post?