Multiple Argument Functions
Dave Cheyney, Wizard extraordinaire posted a challenge on clarity for multi-argument functions.
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Opinionated Automation: Packaged, Extensible & Closed Systems
Network engineers for the last twenty years have created networks from composable logical constructs, which result in a network of some structure.
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Formalisation of Automation: WIP
For the last five or six years, I’ve not really done any networking and have focussed on software, automation and the mechanisation of processes so that they may be manifested as network driving workflows.
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Replacing a Network Element Config System with Git
In this post I’ll explore replacing the heart of a network operating system’s configuration mechanism with the software developers take on version control.
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Leaving Comments in Code Expressed Artefacts
Week of 24th June 2019 was interesting. We had #ferrogate which made a lot of network engineers very unhappy and also an ongoing social media thread on code comments.
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Automation Workflow Patterns
Workflows vary from seriously simple to notoriously complex and as humans, we might not even consciously observe the subtleties of what a workflow comprises of.
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IaC – unit tests with jSNAPy and Ansible
JSNAPY is an open source tool released by Juniper Networks circa 2015 that is the Python version of the Juniper Snapshot Administrator.
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To Code Or Not To Code: Expression & Symbiosis
There is still an ongoing debate over the need for network engineers to pick up some software skills.
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Automation: Tools vs Languages
When it comes to expressing intent in automation workflows, there is validation in both using a task or workflow engine and also knocking it together using scripting in some language.
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