Introduction As the saying goes, "you are only as good as your tools", and this is especially true when it comes to software development and network automation. Within this article will provide a beginners guide to 2 tools that should be in any network automators toolbox - Docker

This post is part of the Network Automation 101 guide. Introduction Besides understanding and learning about the different tools out there, it is important that the Network Engineer understands key concepts and technologies needed to operate the tools presented before them. Figure 1: Skills and Technology Overview Programming and Scripting

This post is part of the Network Automation 101 guide. To bring together some of the concepts explained in the previous articles around network automation let’s work through a hands-on demonstration. The purpose of this sample project is to show the use of Python and Jinja2 to generate network

This post is part of the Network Automation 101 guide. Introduction When it comes to network automation tooling the landscape is vast and can seem daunting. The key to navigating this landscape is understanding the role of each tool. To do this the landscape can be broken down into the

What is Idempotency? Idempotence is a term given to certain operations in mathematics and computer science whereby: an action which, when performed multiple times, has no further effect on its subject after the first time it is performed. In mathematics, idempotency can be seen when we multiply x by 1.

This post is part of the Network Automation 101 guide. The What Network Automation, as the name implies, is the process of automating networking tasks such as the configuration, management, testing, deployment, and operations of physical and virtual devices within a network.[1] Historically, networking tasks have been performed manually.

Introduction Whether you are running VNF’s in OpenStack or deploying virtual environments within GNS3 or EVE-NG, it is important to understand the different virtualization technologies, such as QEMU and KVM, even for us network engineers. The differences between QEMU and KVM are not always clear. I mean, are they

## What is NetDevOps? In a nutshell NetDevOps brings the culture, technical methods, strategies and best practices of DevOps to Networking.[^1] Therefore, let's first take a step back and answer - What is DevOps?

Introduction In this article I will share my top 5 Ansible tips and tricks, that I hope will save you time when automating your networks with Ansible. List Tasks Ansible provides a rather handy little option to print each of your tasks for your plays via the option --list-tasks. Certainly