BGP, Border Gateway Protocol, is the routing protocol that connects the internet, and it is versatile enough to be used from small to large environments. This will be a small reference for BGP basic knowledge. – Basics of BGP – Confederations – Route Reflectors – Neighbour Formations – Path Selection – BGP Synchronisation – BGP […]
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CDK is the AWS Cloud Developer Kit. Here is a small guide to the setup. I have created a new AWS account for myself that is empty. This will walk through the process of setting everything up to interact with the AWS infrastructure through CDK. Tools Node.js is simple to install, just download, and it’s
I have been over the automatic creation of the VXLAN topology in the previous post. However, this stopped at the creation of the topology only. If in the future I wanted to add a new spine or leaf switch, this could be done, but the other switches wouldn’t be aware as they would also need
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This is going to follow on from the previous post to get a basic three switch topology up and running with VXLAN. This time however, instead of doing more VXLAN I will concentrate on a way to automate the adding of spine and leaf switches to the fabric.The purpose of this automation piece is to
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I have used Docker compose to create a private registry that is used to store my docker images. I then run the containers on the same server as the registry. The images are uploaded from my Mac. I haven’t used Docker a lot so, several guides were required for me to get this to work.
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I was making changes on F5s to remove ciphers considered weak. Once the change has been made, the VIP on the F5 must be checked. If the VIP is public and has a DNS record then using SSL labs in very simple. However, if the VIP has no public DNS record, or is not public
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