Lil NaaS! Nice to Meter
Terraform for beginners; Cisco layoffs; Meter is a NaaS startup; C9800 RESTCONF repo; beasting GCP Network Specialist; learning tools with ChatGPT and more
This week we’ve got a great book 📕 to get to grips with making Net DevOps; wrangling FortiGates 🤠 with Ansible in AWS; mitigating IPv6 fragment 💔 MTU issues; getting the point 🤌 of Python Unit Tests; a big guide to Message Queues ⏳; how to use bureaucratic leverage 🎩 to your advantage, jobs 💼 bazinga and more. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
NetEng 🔧
Managing FortiGate With Ansible in AWS - A Comprehensive Introduction is a comprehensive lab tutorial of a realistic scenario hitting some of the routing and Load Balancing “gotchas” 🤕 that crop up in Public Cloud
Notes from my beta Google Cloud Professional Network Engineer Certification Exam if you’re interested in the GCP Network 🌩️ specialist certs
c9800-RESTCONF GitHub Repo has some great scripts and walkthroughs of using RESTCONF to pull interact with APs, SSIDs and more out of the Cisco Catalyst 9800 WLCs 🛜
Navigating MTU Concerns in IPv6 Deployments where an old foe comes to byte you in the packet-size bum, but in a different way 🧩 than you’re used to in IPv4 fragging
Terraform For Beginners will help you make easy work of terraform apply’ing yourself to finally learning about this IaC 🎪 stuff you were terraform plan’ing to eventually
Hiring 💼
NetDevOps Packet Architect / Principal Engineer @ Internet2, Permie, $145k, USA, Remote
Expert NetDevOps Engineer @ Veradigm, Permie, USA, Remote
Principal Distributed Network Dataplane Engineer @ Hedgehog, Permie, USA, Remote
Senior NetDevOps Engineer @ UBS, Permie, Singapore
⭐ Developer - Network Automation @ Sky, Permie, UK, London ⭐
Technical Solutions Engineer - NetDevOps @ Arista, Permie, Ireland, Shannon
NetDevOps Team Lead @ FullCtl, Contract, Remote
Senior Principal Network Architect, Core Architecture @ Equinix, UK, London
Network Infrastructure Engineer @ Met Office, Permie, £32k, UK, Devon
Senior Manager - NetDevOps @ United Airlines, Permie, USA, Chilcago IL
Senior Network Services Architect @ Bloomberg, Permie, USA, New York NY
Senior Network Reliability Engineer @ Oracle, Permie, USA Austin TX
Director of Solution Architecture @ IP Fabric, Permie, USA, Boston MA
Packet Network & Systems Architect @ Colt, Permie, Spain, Madrid
Network Development Lead @ AWS, Permie, UK, London
Network Automation Engineer @ IP Fabric, Permie, EU (Remote)
Network Deployment Engineer @ Cloudflare, Permie, UK, London
NotEng 🤔
Python Unit Testing - What's the Point? very much mirrors our coding //DEBUG print(“style”)//DEBUG, but then it would be nice to get some hours back ⏲️ with proper testing actually…
How to Learn Unfamiliar Software Tools with ChatGPT is one of the LLM’s hidden superpowers - don’t just use it to leach from, use it to teach from 😏
The Big Little Guide to Message Queues and event-based architectures in general as an alternative for a database or flatfile holding area, worth a look 🐝
What Does Cloud Observability Mean for FinOps? - hopefully less cost in your AWS or Azure bill, right? Right? Where’s that Star Wars meme… 🔍
Bureaucratic Leverage is probably why you can’t get that network upgrade, training course or lab gear; use it to your advantage instead, young Padawan 🙏
Events 📅
MPLS SD & AI Net World Congress, Paris, 9 - 11 April 2024
DTX Manchester, Manchester, 22 - 23 May 2024
AutoCon 1, tbc Europe, 27 - 31 May 2024
InfoSec Europe, London, 4 - 6 June 2024
Industry 🏭
Why OpenAI’s Sam Altman And Investor Lachy Groom Are Doubling Down On This Internet Startup as the new Meter NaaS startup gets a $35 million cash injection 💉
Vodafone-Three merger faces competition probe which could halt the UK going for 4 pure-play MNOs to just (ironically here) 3… 🥁
Cisco to cut thousands of jobs as it seeks to focus on high growth areas so hugops to those affected, and scroll back up for the Jobs Section to hook you up 🤞
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 💬.