This is a short post to explain how to setup a GitLab SSH key to securely access your repos. For the full GitLab documentation, please see this article. In GitLab, to create an SSH key, navigate to: User Settings >> SSH Keys Generate an SSH Key I am doing this on a Mac, open a […]
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DevOps principles are becoming very popular in the networking space. In this post, I will demonstrate how to setup a GitLab pipeline using your own GitLab Runner. By default, GitLab does have public runners that perform the same tasks. Overview In GitLab, a pipeline is a series of stages and jobs defined in a .gitlab-ci.yml
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BGP Path selection relies on the BGP attributes. I have described the eight most important BGP attributes in my previous BGP Basic Information post. Weight: The path with the highest weight is preferred. This is only locally significant and not affect any other router within the AS. Cisco only, used for outbound path selection Local Preference: The
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Cisco ACI Supports several methods of automation or infrastructure as code. For this example, I will be using Terraform to give examples of setting up different fabric policies using the Cisco ACI lab. Setup To get this setup, I have several things to do Lab Once the lab has been setup and VPN connected to
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Cisco ACI is a software defined networking solution to control the management and monitoring of a VXLAN network. I know for myself and I think it is common that ACI is confusing at first as to why it’s required and what it actually solves. So I like to think of it as a third iteration
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For this post, I wanted to just go through the NetBox setup and the ability to get started with automation. Docker Compose I will be using Docker for NetBox. There is an easy to get started version of NetBox using NetBox Docker Install Docker Download the Docker Compose binary from the official GitHub repo Apply
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