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Making your Network Topology come to (virtual) life with drawthe.net and gns3fy

Apr 28, 2020

Intro Hi, if you were following the previous articles you will realise that they are focused on network lab virtualization, more specifically in how they can be automated. In this article I cover an interesting topic, the creation of a network topolo...

Making your Network Topology come to (virtual) life with drawthe.net and gns3fy

Parsing Network Devices Logs with the Elastic Stack

Mar 16, 2020

Intro This post is part of several posts related to Network Infrastructure Monitoring using the Elastic Stack. As a starting point lets start with the basics for monitoring events on you network infrastructure -> Logs. There are multiple blogs, artic...

Parsing Network Devices Logs with the Elastic Stack

Automate your network labs with Ansible and GNS3: Part 2

Nov 4, 201915 min read

Intro In the previous part, Automate your network labs with Ansible and GNS3: Part 1, we saw how to use the Ansible GNS3 collections module to automate a network lab setup. On this part we will be focusing on a more complete network lab automation s...

Automate your network labs with Ansible and GNS3: Part 2

Automate your network labs with Ansible and GNS3 (Part 1)

Sep 29, 2019

Intro In Manage your GNS3 network labs programmatically with gns3fy I talked about the use of gns3fy python library to interact with GNS3 server REST API. On this blog post I will go one step further, using an ansible collections module to manipulate...

Automate your network labs with Ansible and GNS3 (Part 1)

Manage your GNS3 network labs programmatically with gns3fy

Sep 1, 2019

Overview Much of the time invested as a Network Engineer is performing network simulations for reasons like studying for a certification, trying out a proof-of-concept or testing design patterns, or even validate configuration changes before pushing ...