This week we’re mapping a k8s cluster with Otterize 🦦; getting tooling to help with your Jinja2 templates 📝; doubling-down on Networkless coming soon 📅; forcing PAN-OS on a rival Forti hardware device 🏓; fixing the CrowdStrike bug with a barcode scanner 💈; and hailing OG API CSV king 👑 . Let’s dive in; ⬇️
NetEng 🔧
Otterize network mapper maps kubernetes pod-to-pod, pot-to-internet and basically any and all traffic relating to your k8s deployment into a network topology visual 🗺️
Jinja2 Renderer from Packet Coders helps you quickly sanity check your Jinja2 templates without leaving the browser or installing anything on your machine 💪
What if the future of networking was Networkless? continues last week’s theme, in much more detail with diagrams, thought processes and positioning to boot; well worth a read 💡
Network Compliance Dashboard - "Dynamic Documentation" (11 mins) espouses creating dynamic Documentation through Ansible and is worth a quick watch 👀
How to install Palo Alto’s PAN-OS on a FortiGate and yes you read that right, putting one Network Vendor’s NOS on another’s Appliance? Sign us up! 🪄
Hiring 💼
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
Expert NetDevOps Engineer @ Veradigm, Permie, USA, IL/TX/PA
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 🤔
How a cheap barcode scanner helped fix CrowdStrike'd Windows PCs in a flash has never seen people so happy to see a Zebra or iPaq handset again, come back PalmPilot, we miss you! 📱
Why CSV is still king and is the original poor man’s universal API 🎯
What it’s like to run HTMX in Production - Stories from Experienced Software Engineers taking us from HTML/CSS to the elusive SPA (not the one you put your feet into water bubbles at) 🛁
Building My First Homelab Server Rack dives deep into everything you could ever want to know to build your own Homelab, from explaining what an RU is through cab choice and whether back or front mounting gear is best 🫷
Making Greppable Code makes the argument that Documentation - while nice - is rarely read, so it’s more important to both comment and write code, functions and logic that is self-documenting 🎶
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 🏭
Microsoft Azure outage takes down services across North America by not being content with the CrowdStrike outage, Redmond goes for broke - hold its beer… 🍺
Microsoft 365 Services Hit By Outage different to the Azure one, maybe we should use Slack or something for our messaging our a carrier pigeon 🐧
The New "Ransomware Kill Switch" That Could Transform Network Security is Zero Trust, and finally kills off the castle-and-moat approach to perimeter Network Security 🏰
Announcing VPC Service Controls with private IPs to extend data exfiltration protection and help you with your Google GCP cloud hardening 🔥
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 💬.