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 […]
Network Engineer BLOG by Roger Perkin – CCIE #50038
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 […]
NetYCE – Multi Vendor Network Automation
NetYCE NetYCE is a network orchestration framework specifically developed for network engineers to build their own network automation solutions in no time without coding. The framework is an ideal alternative to Ansible and Python if you prefer using your network engineering skills to build network automation use-cases over learning programming skills. At the same time, […]
What does a Network Automation Engineer do?
A new job role which has recently started to appear in job searches is a Network Automation Engineer. The big question I get asked all the time is “What does a Network Automation Engineer do?” Network automation engineers are just performing the same tasks that network engineers do every day but using tools like Ansible, […]
