Rick Donato

Learn how to build a network automation stack using the open-source tools, Nornir, Napalm and NetBox.

Today I wanted to quickly share something that you may find useful when working with Batfish. Which is around Batfish's behaviour around the modeling of management networks. The TL;DR here is: By default, Batfish shuts down the management interfaces of your nodes. If you have read this

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I hope you had a great weekend. This is a super quick mail to let you know about the Packet Coders Black Friday offer - 30% off an annual membership (for the first year). Yep. 30% off the current founder's rate, making it crazy cheap! I appreciate your

Network Automation Newsletter. Edition 013 - Nov2021

Today I`m going to quickly show you how you can save a bunch of time and code when writing classes. Typically when writing a class we do something like this. class Interface: def __init__(self, name: str, speed: int, mtu: int) -> None: self.name = name self.speed

Today I want to share a very cool feature of SuzieQ, which I've been using a lot at the moment, but before I dive in, for those of you who are new to SuzieQ... SuzieQ is an observability platform that allows you to query your network using a

Network Automation Newsletter. Edition 012 - Oct2021