These last few months have been pretty crazy. If you want a TL:DR on the last two months, this image best sums it up.
I figured it was about time to get back into it. I had wanted to do this for a while. Unfortunately, a few health bumps along the road prolonged this. I have a ton rattling in my head. I decided it’s time to start getting more involved in the online community again. I’m starting with something awesome.
I have been building a lab on which I am putting the finishing touches on. This lab will help me do a few things, both professionally and personally.
What can I do to cover a good chunk of topics? I don’t want to build a 100-node network, causing my servers to melt. Once I had the idea, I started designing and building it. I forgot how much I loved designing, troubleshooting, and setting up new networks. It’s been a minute since I was genuinely involved with network design. Let alone rolling up my sleeves and getting dirty on the CLI. Yes, for this, I used the CLI and no automation tools.
I am a strong proponent that you need to understand how something works inside and out before you automate it. If you blindly automate something, like deploying a two-spine, six-leaf EVPN VXLAN environment, how can you ever think of troubleshooting it? I do plan on turning this into an automation series as well. Subscribe to the blog if you want to know when that will come along 😎
This series will be in blog and video format, depending on the discussed topic. I will post what you guys need to import the lab into your eve-ng instances. The only thing I will not provide are the images that I am using.
The first post in this series is going to be a refresher on OSPF basics. Sit back, relax, and I’ll see you on the next one!