Federico OlivieriIf 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…3 min read·Dec 3, 2021--1--1
Federico OlivieriHow 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…10 min read·Sep 28, 2021----
Federico OlivieriinCodeXHow 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…8 min read·Jun 23, 2021----
Federico OlivieriJinja2: 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…4 min read·Jan 15, 2021----
Federico OlivieriHow 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…5 min read·Aug 7, 2020----
Federico OlivieriNetwork 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…8 min read·Jun 29, 2020----
Federico OlivieriGit 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.11 min read·May 11, 2020--1--1
Federico OlivieriIf 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…12 min read·May 3, 2020--1--1
Federico OlivieriSelf 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…6 min read·Apr 28, 2020----
Federico OlivieriArista EOS operational tests with Ansible and pyATEOS.Long intro that you cannot skip.8 min read·Apr 20, 2020----