This week we get deep with CCIE-SP 5.1 with some free lab material 💻; care about DNS o11y and what it means for networks 📕; wonder if you could run BGPsec if you wanted to 🔒; retain your IP Address when you move to Azure AVS ☁️; use AI Agents to get into agentic AI for Networking 🤖; wonder why AI take-off is slower than everyone is vibing about 🐌 and go for Protocols not Platforms in the modern walled-garden Internet age 🪴. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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CCIE SPv5.1 Labs is an incredible workbook that takes you through a full Service Provider lab setup to ready yourself for the CCIE SP 💪
Why should you care about DNS Observability? because DNS is king when it comes to knowing what is going on in your network and has more going on that you might realise 👀
BGPsec - Could you run it if you wanted to? and would you want to, in a world where <protocol>sec isn’t always the right choice *cough*DNSSEC*cough* 😷
The Ethernet/802.1 Protocol Stack do you really, really know those 802.1<xyz> as much as you think you do? We thought so until we read this… 🥹
Hybrid Cloud Networking Challenges and How to Solve Them gives some guidance to the world of SDCI, ExpressRoute, DirectConnect, VPC, VNET and all that other Cloud Networking fun 🤩
How to retain your IP addresses while migrating to Azure VMware Solution if you’re mid-migration with HCX and wondering how to stretch a VLAN without, err, stretching a VLAN… 🤔
AI-Agents-For-Networking gives a view of how Agentic AI is coming for Networking, and gives an example workflow using 4 agents to get you started 🦿
Terraform for Network Engineers: Part One takes you through practical examples of tf’ing VNF and Network VMs into life, gotchas, and getting you up and running ⚙️
Learning 🎓
SD-Geeks (SDA, SD-WAN, SD-x)
(Free and Paid, Online Courses, Beginner+)OpenGitOps Principles in Networking
(Video, 30 mins, Intermediate)Coherent optical transceivers – current capabilities & future possibilities
(Video, 30 mins, Intermediate)MPLS L3VPN BGP Additional Path (Hot potato Routing)
(Video, 15 mins, Expert)
Hiring 💼
📢 The Reload in 10 Jobs Board is here 🥳, with a hand-picked selection of awesome Network Engineering, NetDevOps and Network Automation jobs.
It’s also free to list a job if you’re hiring and want to let us know 👂
🔥 This week’s Hot Hirings
🇬🇧 Wireless Network Engineer @ McDonalds, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ thredd, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ Department for Work and Pensions, UK, Manchester
🇺🇸 Wireless Network Development Engineer @ xAI, USA, TN
NotEng 🤔
How Much Should I Be Spending On Observability? adds some science to the gut feel and FinOps to your SRE o11y-Ops (Opsverability?) 💰
Why I think AI take-off is relatively slow in reality as opposed to LinkedIn where everyone and their N-ai-nna just went AI over the course of last Sunday’s roast dinner 🍽️
New BitM Attack Lets Hackers Steal User Sessions Within Seconds where cookies and session tokens turn evil without you even knowing they’re being used against you 🕸️
Linux to Windows and back to Linux diatribes the thoughts of going full circle on the Desktop OS choices available today 💻
Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech voices something we’ve thought for a while; it’s not a platform if everyone can’t stand on it without paying one provider lots of dollar 💵
Hiring Studio Interview Question Generator to let you practice your interview technique with AI before taking an interview for real; remember those 5 P’s - Prior Preparation Prevents P… 🎓
Care Doesn’t Scale and maybe that’s ok, maybe not everything in the world has to scale infinitely forever like some dystopian nightmare 🤝
Tesla releases rare blog post and it’s an interesting one: Standardizing Auto Connectivity because CANbus isn’t good enough for EVs apparently ⚡️
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
Wi-Co Bringing The Herd Together, Toronto, 30 April
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See Schedule
📢 Conferences
OCP EMEA Summit, Dublin, 29 - 30 April 2025
CHI-NOG 12, Chicago, 15 May 2025
RIPE 90, Lisbon, 12 - 16 May 2025
AutoCon 3, Prague, 26 - 30 May 2025
MORE-IP, Amsterdam, 4-5 June 2025
NANOG 94, Denver, 9 - 11 June 2025
Devopsdays Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 18 - 20 June 2025
SwiNOG 40, Switzerland, 24 June 2025
NetUK2, London, 7 - 8 July 2025
Open Source Summit, Amsterdam, 25 - 27 August 2025
Industry 🏭
Over 16,000 Fortinet devices compromised with symlink backdoor because Fortinet is having a Fortbad Fortitime of Fortilate… 😩
AWS Lambda now supports inbound IPv6 connectivity over AWS PrivateLink which is great if you need to write some gluecode for a CI/CD pipeline to glue together something NetDevOps with IPv6 back on-premises 💡
Multiple routers hit by new critical severity remote command injection vulnerability, with no fix in sight feels like the theme of the last few months, maybe an ACL on your Edge PoP ain’t good enough anymore 💀
Nokia’s cellular network ready for Moon as Intuitive Machines completes final lunar lander installation and we’re sure there’s lasers there somewhere, maybe sharks, but definitely lasers 🦈
What is NetOps? posits Red Hat as it goes into the heart of what it is, what it isn’t, and why it came to be 🧐
Linux malware “perfctl” behind years-long cryptomining campaign but how much has it netted them in the end 💸
Eon emerges from stealth with $127M to bring a fresh approach to backing up cloud infrastructure but we’re fairly sure we knew them as a ‘leccy provider first, hope they’ve got trademark lawyers…. 🔌
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 💬.