With the current interest in network automation, it’s imperative that the correct tools are chosen for the right tasks.

We have mostly all been burnt to a level of severity that we will or will not admit to by prodding and poking networks.

Too many times the question has been asked “How do I adopt DevOps and will I need to become a programmer?

The cultural divide between delegation of network control such as in the case of Cisco ACI, or VMware’s NSX is a cause for questioning.

Audience This post is for anyone who’s thought about deploying VXLAN on their network and who like me thinks deeply about stuff, to the point of utter confusion, which hit me on a very hot sunny afternoon.

Audience The network industry right now is in a really weird state because of ‘that’ three letter acronym.

This is a self contained guide on how to use Juniper’s PyEZ library to connect to a Junos device and interact with it by NETCONF.

This is a self contained guide on how to use code driven CLI scraping to connect to a Cisco Catalyst 3560 device and interact with it.

This is a self contained guide on how to use Cisco’s onePK to connect to a Cisco device running the onePK service and interact with it.