Roger Perkin Blog
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Hi, I'm Roger a UK-based network consultant, I am CCIE in Routing & Switching. This is my Network Engineer Blog covering my CCIE Journey and now Network Automation with Ansible & Python. Tutorials and posts are added weekly. If you are a network engineer and like reading blogs then click on through and learn something new!
Roger Perkin Blog
1M ago
Nornir vs Ansible is a question I get asked all the time and it’s very valid, but whilst both are great network automation tools they both have their place depending on your use case and primarily skillset. While both tools tackle network automation tasks in a very different way Nornir is really for network engineers ..read more
Roger Perkin Blog
2M ago
What are Ansible Templates? Ansible templates are a powerful feature that allow you to dynamically generate configuration files or other text-based content on remote systems using templates, variables, and facts. They leverage the Jinja2 templating engine to substitute variables, use control structures like loops and conditionals, and perform various operations on data. What are ..read more
Roger Perkin Blog
2M ago
Network Observability is the ability to gain insights into the internal workings of a network by analyzing its external outputs. Network observability is the ability to answer any question about your network quickly and easily, based on data you have pulled from the outputs of your network. In simple terms you have a tool which collects all ..read more
Roger Perkin Blog
2M ago
Here are the steps to download files or repositories from GitHub: How To Download a Single File from GitHub To Download an Entire Repository To Clone a Repository (Using Git) Cloning a repository using Git allows you to not only download the files but also track changes, create branches, and contribute back to the original ..read more
Roger Perkin Blog
3M ago
Is GitHub still Free? GitHub offers free and paid plans, depending on your use case you can use GitHub for free. GitHub offers personal and enterprise accounts. If you want to use GitHub for free you have access to the following features: For more information on the other packages check out – https://github.com/pricing Does it ..read more
Roger Perkin Blog
4M ago
Network Automation Conferences 2024 If you want your network automation conference added here – send me the details and I will add it below! Autocon Network Automation With network automation becoming more mainstream network automation conferences are becoming more popular and I have listed below every conference I know about happening in 2024 The only ..read more
Roger Perkin Blog
4M ago
10 Common Network Automation Use Cases One of the biggest challenges with network automation is where to start, here are my top 10 network automation use cases to get you started, these will all fit into 3 main categories. Read Only Automation Use Cases These are great use cases to get started with network automation ..read more
Roger Perkin Blog
4M ago
EVE-NG Network Automation Lab In this post I will show you how to build an EVE-NG network automation lab in Google Cloud Platform. For this demo I will be using Cisco images but the process is the same for other vendors and also works much the same in Azure. The network automation lab will consist ..read more
Roger Perkin Blog
4M ago
Do Network Engineers use Git? Yes, network engineers do use Git, and its usage in the field of network engineering has grown significantly in recent years. Git, a version control system originally designed for tracking changes in computer code, has proven to be valuable for managing configurations and scripts in networking environments as well. Here ..read more