Mircea Ulinic

TL;DR latency-monitor measures real application-like latency over TCP and UDP Supports one-way delay (OWD), not just RTT Works over established TCP connections Designed for high-frequency, continuous probing Requires time-synchronised endpoints (NTP/PTP) I

From the very beginning, when I first introduced Salt to the network automation community, one of my dreams was to create a course.

Salt is currently one of the largely adopted automating frameworks, and perhaps one of the most complete and flexible.

Python development for infrastructure management using Salt - Having the privilege to maintain one of the widely used tools for network automation, NAPALM, I am often asked various questions, many of them related to the extensibility of the library.

In my mind, especially after seeing how automation massively helped one of the largest global networks (Cloudflare - my current employer), I simply cannot conceive that a network can possibly run reliably without a form of automation.

Very often I refer to Salt as one of the most suitable tools for managing large scale deployment - either servers or network devices, but not limited to.

The easy way - This is going to be a very short blog post, but hopefully it will provide an easier intro for the (network) engineers that want to get started with Salt to leverage its superpowers for network automation.

The beginning of the OpenBSD era - As I have previously attempted several times in the past, I am (finally) very close to switch to OpenBSD, a more stable and reliable operating system that I like.

The overlooked side of Salt and some best practices - One of the (many) things I like about Salt is that it doesn’t have an obscure language of its own: as I always like to say, to start automating all you need to know is YAML and Jinja, 3 rules each.

Using napalm-logs and Salt - One of the most common misconceptions is that network automation is only about configuration management.

The easy way - In one of my previous posts, I have presented how to install NAPALM and Salt.

Network orchestration with Salt and NAPALM - Part 3 - There are many common misconceptions around Salt, and very often people seem to miss that Salt is more than a configuration management product, while it is a rich orchestrator with configuration manage…

And how Cisco does not give a damn - The XML API is a proprietary software written by Cisco, that is leveraged only on IOS-XR.

During the live session of the NANOG tutorial, I have expanded on the installation side.

Up and running in 60 minutes - Last week I have presented at NANOG a tutorial about Network Automation at scale: up and running in 60 minutes.

Network orchestration with Salt and NAPALM - Part 2 - In the first post we have been introduced to the very basic command syntax and features.

The wait is over, NAPALM is finally fully integrated in an automation framework.

Because rendering templates is simply not enough - Automation is the new buzzword in networking today.