This week win a free O’Reilly Arista Warrior book 📖; AWS NAT Gateway in an interactive blog 🌐; using D2 to visualise network topologies 🗺️; k8s for Network Engineers 🎓; what is Cisco NDFC, is it ACI 🤔; configure BGP on ceEOS with Python 🐍; fck-nat is a great tool for AWS VPCs 🤘; knowledge work is dying 💀 and AI is making you indispensable 🎖️. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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AWS NAT Gateway is an awesome interactive blog tutorial that walks you through AWS NAT Gateways, in detail, including drag-and-drop examples, a cost calculator and even some o11y bits, awesome! 🤩
Antimony is a platform and graphical interface to design and manage containerlab networks and does a great job of helping to bring the visualisation you’re used to from EVE-NG and GNS3 into Containerlab labs 🧪
Creating Network Topologies with D2 compares some popular frontend graph visualisation languages like GraphViz, Mermaid and D2 and walks through using the brilliant (and free) kroki.io API to render them for you 🖌️
Kubernetes for Network Engineers eases you into some of the terms and concepts in k8s that your Server and DevOps chums might taunt you with daily, don’t be scared, face that fear head on 🐯
What is Cisco Nexus Dashboard Controller (NDFC) and why do I want the fabric it creates for me? and are you sure it’s not ACI, sure you’re sure, sure, sure? Ok, so you’re sure… 👌
The Future of Network Engineering in the AI Era definitely contains a two-letter buzzword you’ve heard of, but perhaps some useful others you’ve not thought about, to the future 🤘
Configuring BGP on cEOS with paramiko takes you through a mini jaunt of Docker, Python, YAML, scripting and the infamous SSH library to bring up some BGP peers 👀
What Is DNS: A Comprehensive Guide to How It Works because you NSever know what you didn’t AAAActually know was a legitimate DNS attribute these daysSRV 😇
Videos, Tools and Papers 🎓⚒️
fck-nat is the (f)easible (c)ost (k)onfigurable NAT for AWS
(Tool, AWS, Cloud)foam is a personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode
(GitHub, Tool, Wiki)Dublin Traceroute is a NAT-aware multipath tracerouting tool
(GitHub, Tool, Network)Arista Smart System Upgrade (SSU) for Campus - Demonstration
(Video, 12 mins, Beginner)
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
🇬🇧 Principal Private 5G Network Consultant @ Verizon, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Product Engineer @ Cloud Gateway, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network Infrastructure Lead @ University of East London, UK, London
🇮🇪 Network Deployment Engineer @ Meta, Ireland, Dublin
🇮🇪 Network Engineer @ Abbott, Ireland, Dublin
🇨🇦 Senior Network Manager @ Equinix, Canada, Toronto
NotEng 🤔
Building an IPv6 Training Plan is in this section because it speaks to the real reason why IPv6 adoption isn’t “there” yet; tech change is easy, culture change is hard 🗿
Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services expands the two pizza fables into what this actually means and achieves for people on the ground trying to employ systems thinking 🧐
Knowledge Work Is Dying—Here’s What Comes Next and thankfully it’s not “unemployment, pain and biscuits”, apparently 🍪
The Who Cares Era challenges AI slop and reminds us what it is to be human; quality over quantity (unless it’s a kebab at 3 AM after heavy drinking) 🥙
The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo challenges the microservice approach to Version Control with a concise, workable framework to make one big git “folder” scale to more than one team 🎹
Specification-Driven Development with Amazon Q Developer is the meta-prompt you didn’t know you needed until now; don’t prompt, prompt your prompt, so you can prompt your prompt while you prompt, dawg 🐶
Tales From Mainframe Modernization reminds us they are very much still a thing, and we’re told make companies like IBM an awful lot of money still to this day 🗄️
AI Is Quickly Making IT Teams and Developers From Invisible to Indispensable so strike while the AI iron is hot, hot, hot 🤖
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule
📢 Conferences
🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help
FrOSCon, Sankt Augustin, 16 - 17 August 2025
AfPIF African Peering Forum, Lagos, 19 - 21 August 2025
Open Source Summit, Amsterdam, 25 - 27 August 2025
AusNOG 2025, Melbourne, 3 - 4 September 2025
European Peering Forum, Bucharest, 15 - 17 September 2025
FutureNet Asia, Singapore, 16 - 17 September 2025
Enterprise Tech Leadership Summit, Las Vegas, 23 - 25 September 2025
BalticNOG 2025, Vilnius, 24 - 25 September 2025
NLNOG, Amsterdam, 30 September 2025
OpenInfra Summit Europe, Paris, 17 - 19 October 2025
RIPE 91, Bucharest, 20 - 24 October, 2025
ESNOG, Barcelona, 30 - 31 October 2025
DENOG 17, Essen, 9 - 11 November 2025
AutoCon 4, Austin, 17 - 21 November 2025
Industry 🏭
Arista Networks Buys VeloCloud SD-WAN Portfolio From Broadcom is so interesting we covered it twice, perhaps 🤔
The Network Intelligence Blueprint is short, concise and covers what you need to consider to do Network Automation from 0 to doing 🚀
What is IP address management (IPAM) in Azure Virtual Network Manager? and did you even know that Azure offered it’s own IPAM for cash monies? 📂
Cisco Live 2025 summarises all the comings and goings if you missed it, or we just reminded you that you missed it (you definitely missed it…) 🎙️
Forget IPs: using cryptography to verify bot and agent traffic finally puts the nail in the coffin into the pesky Firewall Change Request? Find out… 🕵️♂️
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 💬.