Dial PE for MPLS
This week we’re backing up our ALU gear ⚙️ with Ansible; learning the difference between VPC Peering and TGW ⾨; fighting ASDM 🤜 for Cisco Firewall migration paths; questioning the P in MPLS design 🤔; using half a billion GPT tokens 🤑 to learn; actioning Time Management 📅 techniques to do more stuff and even collecting Network Telemetry 🎣 with InfluxDB. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
NetEng 🔧
Backup Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Omniswitch AOS6 & AOS8 using Ansible if you’re of the SP or European world where ALU are very much a vendor in the wild 🦓
VPC Peering Connections vs Transit Gateway in case you’re in AWS and wanted to know the many and nuances differences in inter-VPC connectivity, this is for you 🚇
Cisco Firewall Migration Paths - there are many, and sadly some involve the horrific buggy Java piece of trash that is ASDM (where “Save” must be clicked not once, not twice but five million times to work…) 🤬
The NERD Project is a resource for Network Engineer Resource for Development; including files, playbooks, scripts, tips and other tidbits to help you in your NetDevOps daily activities 🙋🏻♀️
Do We need P Routers in an MPLS Network Design? is definitely worth a read if you’re one of the many who think
MPLS == IP VPN; under the covers it’s so, so, so much more (don’t @ us, SD-WAN vendors - half your Tunnel transit still goes over MPLS; she ain’t dead yet) 💀
Hiring 💼
Network Architect @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
👉 Lead Technical Architect (Delivery) - Ciena Optical @ ePlus, Permie, $125k+,USA
Senior Network DevOps Engineer @ LivePerson, Permie, Australia, Sydney
Solutions Architect - Ethernet Networking @ NVIDIA, Permie, USA, CA
Lead Network and Infrastructure Engineer @ Under Armour, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
Lead Network Engineer - Cloud Architecture @ Visa, Permie, USA, VA
Network Systems Engineer IV @ VeriSign, Permie, USA, VA
IT Specialist - Network Automation Engineer @ DSV, Permie, Philippines, Paranaque
Network Automation Engineer @ Bank of America, Permie, USA, NC/VA/GA
Director, Technical Operations (SRE) and DevOps @ IMAX, Permie, Canada, Ontario
⭐️ Network Automation Engineer @ CACI, Permie, UK, London
Network Engineer @ Zen Internet, Permie, UK, Manchester
Cloud Network Engineer @ Google Cloud, Permie, USA, TX/GA/IL
Network Support Engineer @ Cato Networks, Permie, Czech Republic, Prague
Network Engineer, Deployment & Support @ Meta, Permie, Singapore
Network Automation Migration Engineer @ Nokia, Permie, $142k+, Canada, Ontario
Network Automation Solutions Tester @ Nokia, Permie, India, Bangalore
Senior DevOps/Network Automation Engineer @ Moody’s, Permie, $118k+, USA, NC
Network DevOps Engineer @ SAP, Permie, Hungary, Budapest
Infrastructure and Network Consultant @ McDonald’s, Permie, UK, London
Network Engineer, Automation & Tooling, Fullstack @ Meta, Permie, UK, London
Senior Product Manager, Mibura NetMetal @ Mibura, Permie, USA, CA
Global Network Engineer @ Patagonia, Permie, $114k+, USA, CA
Senior Network DevOps Engineer @ LivePerson, Permie, Poland, Katowice
Senior Network Control Plane Engineer @ Hedgehog, Permie, USA, CA/WA
Software Development Engineer, Network Automation @ ByteDance, Permie, $187k+, USA, CA
Network Developer 2 @ Oracle, Permie, $180k+, USA, TX/VA
Network Engineer @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
Cloud Optical Network Engineer @ Microsoft, Permie, USA, WA
Network Automation Engineer - Infrastructure Services @ CGI, Permie, Netherlands, Rotterdam
Production Services Engineer, Infrastructure Services @ Apple, Permie, $144k+, USA, CO
Senior Network Engineer - NetDevOps @ Kunai, Permie, USA, TX/VA
Principal Infrastructure Engineer @ Anaplan, Permie, UK, London
Network Engineer, Deployment & Support @ Meta, Permie, $190k+, USA, ID
Staff Network Reliability Engineer @ Robinhood, Permie, USA, CA/NY/WA
Principal Network Backbone and Edge Engineer @ Roblox, Permie, $283k+, USA, San Mateo CA
Network Automation Engineer @ IP Fabric, Permie, EU (Remote)
NotEng 🤔
Time management techniques that actually work does what it says on the tin with actionable tips, tricks and hints to manage the most precious of all assets you don’t have - time 🕰️
Collecting Network Data and Writing to InfluxDB with Python takes you on the start of a journey to in-house Observability Monitoring tooling, using the infamous time-series store 💿
Lessons after a half-billion GPT tokens saves you the time (and money) of LLM’ing about and finding out when it comes to becoming a better Prompt or AIOps Engineer 🦾
Generative AI and CS Education has strong opinions on the educational system’s shortcomings on the AI Knowledge Workers of the future, and is worth a read (or even an AIsummarisation - there needs to be a verb for that…) 👀
Automatic ACME SSL Certificate Rotation to get towards a better internal PKI experience that smells more automated than the current self-signed “OK, insecure, let’s go” experience we bet you have 🔐
Events 📅
SANS Network Security 2024, Las Vegas, 4 - 9 September 2024
NetApp Insight, Las Vegas, 23 - 25 September 2024
Public Sector Cloud and AI Conference, Edinburgh, 24 September 2024
Network X, Paris, 8 - 10 October 2024
NANOG 92, Toronto, 21 - 23 October 2024
Industry 🏭
Cisco Duo's Multifactor Authentication Service Breached is not two thumbs fresh if you used Duo for your IdP authentication 👎
Palo Alto Networks fixes zero-day exploited to backdoor firewalls so update those PAN-OS to mitigate more Remote Access CVEs 🏰
Advanced routing capabilities using Application Gateway Rewrite Rules has handy URL Rewrite and Routing techniques if you’re an Azure customer 🪟
Slack’s new generative AI features now available for all paid customers so you can appear online when you’re offline without the old USB mouse-mover pad that we’ve definitely never-ever used… 😎
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 💬.