Finally, I got my expert subscription to ipspace.net, and enrolled in one of the full courses. After a couple of weeks, I have to say that I’m really impressed with the quality, content, and structure. It’s my best career investment in a long time. It feels like a master degree in networking, why? - content already digested and explained better than a vendor static long pages and isolated from a wider technology perspective ...
Going into these new topics was one of the best decisions of the last years. It is an exciting and almost uncharted world. There is an ecosystem of applications succeeding in the servers world, while networking is going behind but still very encouraged. It is hard to think about the use cases without the tendency of self-making it too difficult. But starting with small things made me realize that the opposite way is the right way. No company is the same, not a single context is the same, so the point of view and development is always individualized. Start with small automation, and it will grow as time passes by. ...
Event-Driven Network Automation and Orchestration topics can be addressed with Salt. It is the next step in this Automation revolution, where we are trying to make things faster and smarter. Network Automation at Scale by Mircea Ulinic & Seth House. This is a great book with a lot of examples, in only 95 pages goes through all the concepts and components. By the end it opened my mind to things that can be done today very easily, that is awesome. Great job by the authors! ...
Network Programmability and Automation by Jason Edelman, Scott S. Lowe & Matt Oswalt. If you are wondering about what Network Automation really is, and where are we going with this, I highly recommend you to check out this great book. If you don’t have time, at least go through it, it’s easy to read, even if you go jumping between chapters you will find interesting things. And if you are really into starting the journey of network automation, this is the perfect book to start with. ...