Can you Git what it is yet?
Getting comfy with Cilium eBPF; classical Networking cheatsheets; free Ethical Hacking courses; cloning yourself with AI; structuring IaC repos and more
This week we get familiar with Cilium eBPF mesh 🥅; use HTTP CONNECT to proxy SSH via HTTPS 🐱💻; git to grips with Git; use FaaS to build a long-running 🏃 web app; fork our way through OpenTofu 🍴 and apply for some awesome NetDevOps careers 💼. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
NetEng 🔧
Cilium Certified Associate Study Guide for those of you interested in the Isovalent eBPF Service Mesh 🌐 for kubernetes
Router Alley Guides are cheatsheets on everythign from 802.11, through ACLs, IPsec, EtherChannel, VoIP, WAN, QoS and more “classical” 🎻 Networking
Free Cybersecurity Courses for Beginners from the EC-Council is a great way to learn all things InfoSec, Ethical Hacking, Network Defense and Digital Forensics for free 🆓
SSH over HTTPS for those times when you need to abuse HTTP CONNECT proxies to tunnel 🚇 through to your VM or VPS remotely
VXLAN/EVPN Host mobility deep-dives 👙 into the magic that makes EVPN work a lot like LISP did and allow MAC Addresses to move around endpoints
Git for Network Engineers Series – The Basics because there’s a lot to git to grips with the popular version control tool (git it? 😆)
Hiring 💼
⭐ Director of Solution Architecture @ IP Fabric, Permie, USA, Boston MA ⭐
NetDevOps Team Lead @ FullCtl, Contract, Remote
Packet Network & Systems Architect @ Colt, Permie, Spain, Madrid
Network Support Engineer via Hamilton Barnes, Permie, £44k+, Guernsey
Network Development Lead @ AWS, Permie, UK, London
Senior Network Operations Engineer @ Google, Permie, UK (Remote), SC/NSV Clearance
Network Automation Engineer @ IP Fabric, Permie, EU (Remote)
Network Automation Engineer via Sterlings, Permie, £80k+, UK, Camberley/Bromley/Chester
NetDevOps Engineer via Hamilton Barnes, Contract, €475+ day, France, Lille
Network Automation Engineer FinTech via Hamilton Barnes, Permie, £200k+, UK, London
Technical Consultant (Automation and DevOps) @ Nomios, Permie, UK, Basingstoke
Network Automation Engineer @ Pico, Permie, UK, London (Hybrid)
Network Deployment Engineer @ Cloudflare, Permie, UK, London
NotEng 🤔
How I clone myself using AI is a Blackhat walkthrough of using various AI Bot, Chatbot and LLM tools to effectively create your own Personal Assistant clone 🤖
Building a long-running, serverless, event-driven system with as little code as possible is a walkthrough of using FaaS frameworks to host long-living concerns, like websites 🔖 without a VM
It’s Humans All the Way Down even when AI takes all the jobs 😊
Structuring your Infrastructure as Code walks through some approaches to structure 📚 all your TerraForm or Ansible playbooks, YAML, assets and other bits and bobs
What PWA Can Do Today might surprise you how far ✊ Progressive Web Apps have come over stock HTML web pages
How to Capitalize on Generative AI sets the scene between all the AI buzzwords and guides you through what useful stuff you can do with your LLM 👂 or ML model
Events 📅
Cisco Live! Europe, Amsterdam, 5-9 February 2024
MPLS SD & AI Net World Congress, Paris, 9 -11 April 2024
AutoCon 1, tbc Europe, 27-31 May 2024
Industry 🏭
Terraform fork OpenTofu launches into general availability after all the drama has settled around the OpenTF Manifesto 👍
HPE to Acquire Juniper Networks to Accelerate AI-Driven Innovation in case you hadn’t heard yet about the Jaruba, HPEJ or JuniHPEr merger 🛣️ yet
Why 37Signals Abandoned the Cloud gives an alternative Cloud Repatriation 🔙 view to the common Cloud Migration 🔝 trope
That’s all for this week, but if you have any tip-offs, blogs, events or job posts you’d like us to feature then please feel free to let us know at newsletter@reloadin.net 📮 and we’ll see if we can add them in 💬.