Network Automation newsletter. Edition 008- june2021

In my previous life as a firewall admin, I found that there were two key things to maintaining a healthy firewall ACL. First, ensure it passes the necessary traffic! Secondly, ensure that the ACL was cluttered with any unnecessary ACL entries. By making sure our ACL's were clutter-free

It is with great pleasure that today I can announce the release of Packet Coders (previously PacketFlow). What is Packet Coders? Packet Coders is a Network Automation Learning Platform providing network automation courses through code, labs and community. Our courses are built by engineers, for engineers—no fluff or sales,

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Network Automation newsletter. Edition 007 - May2021

When I first started in network automation, I took to Vim, vigorously writing out code. Was it clean code, easy to support and extend? Hell no! I have to admit it was damn ugly code. At the end of the day, I had just started out and was enjoying my

A guide into the world of parsing. Learn how to build your own custom parser from scratch.

Previously I shared how you can scan your Python code for security issues. However, with the increased use of containers in network automation, I wanted to also share with you a way to locally scan your Docker images for security issues/vulnerabilities using the Docker Scan feature. Docker Scan (Docker

Network Automation newsletter. Edition 006- April2021