Could Ansible be the Skill that Takes Your Career to the Next Level? If you’re a Network Engineer looking to add another skill to your toolbelt for better career opportunities and better pay, this is the course for you. This network automation course will take you from no knowledge of Ansible at all, to an […]
Network Engineer BLOG by Roger Perkin – CCIE #50038
Cisco Certification Changes – Feb 24th 2020
Cisco announced at Cisco Live US San Diego a massive change to their certification program. All you need to know is here: www.cisco.com/nextlevel Basically from February 24th 2020 this will happen. The Highlights CCENT – ICND1 & ICND2 Gone CCNA – There is now only one. CCNA Security – Gone CCNA Voice – Gone CCNA […]
How to run a Cisco Nexus 9000v Switch on a Windows 10 laptop with Vagrant and Virtualbox
The Nexus 9000v switch is a free virtual edition of the very popular Nexus 9K switch. It is free to use and will run most of the features of a real Nexus. This post will detail how I run the Cisco Nexus 9000v switch on my Windows 10 laptop using Vagrant and Virtualbox, for an […]
What are the advantages of using Ansible roles?
One of the main features of Ansible is the use of roles, and there are many advantages of using Ansible roles which I will describe below. When you start to build up a collection of playbooks you will soon discover that there will be duplication and you find yourself writing or using the same blocks […]
Windows Subsystem for Linux
Can you run Linux on Windows? Yes you can, and there are many options open to you, VMWare, VirtualBox which all let you run a virtual machine using your Windows as the host, but using the Windows Subsystem for Linux you can run Linux directly on your Windows 10 computer (well just about!) This WSL […]
Cisco NSO Installation Guide – Ubuntu
Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) is an orchestration platform for hybrid networks. It decouples network services from specific components, while automatically configuring the network according to service specifications. Cisco NSO Download NSO is free to download for non-production use! To download your trial version of Cisco NSO head over to https://developer.cisco.com/site/nso/ This will download nso-4.7.linux.x86_64.zip You need to […]
Ansible Inventory File
The Ansible Inventory File tells Ansible about the hosts that it can connect to. For Ansible to automate a Linux Server, Network device or Cloud server it has to exist within the inventory (also known as the Ansible hosts file) and saved in either YAML or INI format. The file can also be static or […]
