If it takes more than 1 minute and 30 seconds, you are not explaining it well enough…I have recently completed 1 year journey through sailing course which ended up passing 4 exams and getting my sailing license. I have…Dec 3, 20211Dec 3, 20211
How to Write an Ansible Module — Part 2In the first part of this post — available here — we have covered the basic configuration and logic required in order to write an…Sep 28, 2021Sep 28, 2021
Published inCodeXHow to Write an Ansible Module — Part 1You certainly remember the first time you ran an Ansible playbook: a few lines of code grouped together in a bunch of tasks that did a lot…Jun 23, 2021Jun 23, 2021
Jinja2: Assemble StrategyBecause you are reading this post, you’re likely aware of the great power of the Jinja2 templating language. You might have turned an…Jan 15, 2021Jan 15, 2021
How to enforce security compliance on a network with Ansible. The (almost) perfect recipe.Let’s keep it nice and short because if you are reading this post, probably you are looking for a practical solution and you do not want…Aug 7, 2020Aug 7, 2020
Network Automation: a comfortable journey.We all know how painful it is moving from a technology that we are well confident to work with, to a new one where we have zero experience…Jun 29, 2020Jun 29, 2020
Git strategies for Network AutomationLet’ s be honest: git is so damn complex. Whoever does not admit that is either a liar or someone who does not have a great social life.May 11, 20201May 11, 20201
If we have Infrastructure as Code (IaC) why can’t we have Network as Code (NaC)?First of all, apologies to all of those people who are feeling hurt by decoupling the term “Network” from “Infrastructure”. I am one of…May 3, 20201May 3, 20201
Self provisioning network telemetry probes. I had almost forgotten about it.Yes, that happens when you write (probably by coincidence…) a good piece of python crap that just works, it does its job without…Apr 28, 2020Apr 28, 2020
Arista EOS operational tests with Ansible and pyATEOS.Long intro that you cannot skip.Apr 20, 2020Apr 20, 2020