This week Agentic AI that understands your Network 🤖; avoiding bad IPv6 Approaches 🙈; monitoring Arista with gNMI, Prometheus and Grafana 🧪; the Intelligent Network Mandate 🎓; network redundancy in Azure VNETs ☁️; why stuff fails “The Thermocline of Truth” 📉; how to run Python in production 🐍 and automating Network Diagrams with Draw.io and MCP 🎬. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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A New Frontier for Network Engineers: Agentic AI That Understands Your Network has a quick demo use case of using MCP, Claude and JSON to wrangle your Network Standards together ⌨
Bad IPv6 Approaches are like DHCP in the IPv6 world - sure you could, but why not embrace the new approach and philosophy while you’re doing the re-addressing work? ☯️
Network Automation Series #6: Monitoring Arista Router using gNMI, Prometheus, and Grafana walks you through a modern o11y approach to a sample Network, covering plugins, ecosystem, views and everything you need to get up and running 🏃
The Intelligent Network Mandate opines on where we are with stuff like self-healing Networks, and where we need to go - fast - to get to an AI Network future 🤖
Automating EVE-NG Deployments with Python uses automation for your good rather than the Network’s, get your Network Lab up and running faster than ever before with the infamous snake language 🐍
Network Redundancy from On-Premises to Azure VMware and VNETs considers aspects like SDCI (ExpressRoute), VNETGW, Hubs, Spokes, Landing Zones, AVS (Azure VMware Solution) and more for hybrid on-premises Azure setups 💡
Keep Scripting, But Think Bigger: Why Network Automation Needs Orchestration separates the two if you’ve been getting confused where Automation begins and Orchestration ends 📕
Learning and Tools 🎓⚒️
Automated Network Diagrams with DrawIO and pyATS MCP
(Video, 20 mins, Intermediate)AutoKitteh is a developer platform for workflow automation (think n8n or PowerAutomate, but better)
CCIE Service Provider - Segment Routing Mapping Server in IOS XR
(Video, 15 mins, Intermediate)SREcon25 Americas - Network Flow Data in the Cloud
(Video, 15 mins, Intermediate)Automating a national network with open-source
(Video, 1 hour, 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
🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ Howdens, UK, York
🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ Swissport, UK, Remote
🇩🇪 Senior Network Engineer @ Nebius, Germany, Berlin
🇮🇳 Network Automation Specialist @ Airbus, India, Bangalore
🇬🇧 Network Infrastructure Specialist @ Lloyds Banking Group, UK, Manchester
🇬🇧 Senior Network Design Engineer @ Sky, UK, London
🇺🇸 Senior Network Operations Engineer @ Oracle, USA, TX
NotEng 🤔
Awesome MCP Servers is a curated list of awesome Model Context Protocol servers across everything from DevOps, Networking, Data Platforms and even Art 🖼️
How to run Python in production adds thoughts around all the scaffolding, glue and hosting pain you have to do in order to make that “quick little Python script” run 24/7 at some sense of scale 🕥
Python's new t-strings are here in Python 3.14, providing one more reason to not have to concatenate strings “in” + “an” + “illegible” + “mass” ➕
Why Stuff Fails (“The Thermocline of Truth”) is especially relevant if you’re in the DevOps or Platform Engineering space; what you build might be technically excellent, but those pesky people and process always win in the end 🥇
12-Factor Agents - Principles for building reliable LLM applications gives guidance on using all this AI, ML, MCP, NLP, Agentic and other gubbins to write robust and ready scripts, config, code or even full-scale Apps 🦾
The day I taught AI to understand code like a Senior Developer saves much time and unlocks AI tooling as a real-time assistant rather than having to context-switch to an intelligent chat window all the time 🪄
Communications for Engineers doesn’t have any protocols in it, but shares a lot of knowledge about the other flavour of comms you have to do - with other humans - and how to improve 🤔
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See Schedule
📢 Conferences
AutoCon 3, Prague, 26 - 30 May 2025
RMISC, Colorado, 28 - 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
AfPIF African Peering Forum, Lagos, 19 - 21 August 2025
Open Source Summit, Amsterdam, 25 - 27 August 2025
AusNOG 2025, Melbourne, 3 - 4 September 2025
BalticNOG 2025, Vilnius, 24 - 25 September 2025
Industry 🏭
Eric Schmidt apparently bought Relativity Space to put data centers in orbit because in Space, nobody can hear you OAM dying gasp scream as the optics give up 😱
Arista Acquires a Networking Unit From Broadcom in the ol’ flip-reverers-aroo, and it begins with the letter “V” for… no, no that one… 🤔
Amazon launches first Kuiper internet satellites in bid to take on Elon Musk’s Starlink, so watch out - it must be busier up there than the interstate at home time 🚧
Amazon also slows down its data centre commitments for the same reasons everyone else is 🍿
Exploring Data Transfer Costs for AWS Network Load Balancers it costs different to what you think, for ingress/egress reasons to where you thought traffic was heading 🎚️
Load Balancer Capacity Unit Reservation for Gateway Load Balancers is here if you need to set a minimum bandwidth capacity for your AWS GWLB ䷩
NetOps Control Console Beta Program launches an interesting Nornir and Napalm-powered Network Automation Platform designed for Day 2 Operations 🚀
UK makes first 250-mile quantum video call using entangled light for encryption wasn’t Sam calling for Ziggy to take him back where he was 🔭
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 💬.