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
1d 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
2w 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
2w 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
2w 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
1M 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
Roger Perkin Blog
2M ago
What is an API in simple terms? API Example What is an API and how does it work? What is an API key? What is REST API? What is an API request? Other types of API ..read more
Roger Perkin Blog
2M ago
A Cisco Virtual Port Channel (vPC) is an etherchannel formed of links that are physically connected to two different Cisco Nexus 7000 or 9000 Series devices to appear as a single port channel by a third device e.g. an upstream Nexus switch. The typical way of making an etherchannel is to use 2 or more ports that ..read more
Roger Perkin Blog
3M ago
What is the difference between AWX and the Ansible Automation Platform? What is included in the Ansible Automation Platform? Ansible Automation Platform includes: Ansible Automation Platform vs AWX Cost The major difference between Ansible Automation Platform and AWX is the cost, AWX is free as it’s the open source and AAP is a paid subscription ..read more