Example In my previous posts in this project, I have explained how to setup NetBox and a couple of the Ansible collection features. In this post, I want to demonstrate what is possible using this approach. I have created multiple Ansible roles with different vars files containing a lot of configuration parameters.The repo for this […]
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Git Branches The purpose of this NetBox Ansible project is to fix the problems I have encountered with multiple changes being pushed to NetBox by different engineers and then having multiple changes being made to the network devices with very little change control. Now that Ansible is able to make changes to my NetBox test,
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Removing Configuration for Individual Components In the previous post, I demonstrated an example of a custom field. Inside the task, there was a state parameter. This parameter tells NetBox whether to create or delete it.Leaving the state hard set inside the task means all custom tags (as in that example) will either be present, or
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This post follows on from the NetBox setup post, upto the API token setup. SSL Configuration with Nginx In that previous post, SSL was not used. The connection was made insecure and ignored. Here, I will detail the steps to use Nginx as a proxy for the NetBox docker container. Add SAN to SSL Creation
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This post follows on from the NetBox setup post, upto the API token setup. SSL Configuration with Nginx In that previous post, SSL was not used. The connection was made insecure and ignored. Here, I will detail the steps to use Nginx as a proxy for the NetBox docker container. Add SAN to SSL Creation
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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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As a Network Engineer, my development workflows are not very disciplined or strong. I mainly use Git as a place to store my completed work, in the form of GitHub. This does work, however, I am missing out on many very useful features that Git version control has to offer and any collaboration with a
This lab takes the initial config from the post, Creating FortiGate Config with Terraform, and adds in the IPS config to the firewall rule that permits all traffic between INSIDE and DMZ. The IPS policy is the default from FortiNet that blocks critical attacks. The attack that I will demonstrate is the ever popular vsftpd
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This is a quick guide to show the ease to create a phishing site. I am using zphisher. There are a number of these menu-driven phishing site creators, most of which do not work, or work well, zphisher is the best I have found. The phishing site will create will be for LinkedIn. This will
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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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