Netmiko Using Python (Netmiko) to Standardize VLANs across 100+ Switches Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you needed to standardize the configuration of VLAN names across multiple Suresh Vina Mar 16, 2023 8 min read
Terraform Terraform for Absolute Beginners Are you a beginner looking to learn Terraform? Don't worry, you've come to the right place! Suresh Vina Mar 15, 2023 11 min read
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Linux 6 Tcpdump commands for Network Troubleshooting Want to identify the Network Traffic that is going in and out of a Linux system? Have you ever wished Suresh Vina Feb 8, 2023 11 min read
Python Jinja2 Templating Use Case with Palo Alto In this blog post, let's look at one of the real-world's use cases of Jinja2 Templating. Suresh Vina Feb 2, 2023 11 min read
Netmiko Netmiko Secrets - How to Secure Your Network Automation Credentials Netmiko is arguably one of the great tools for Network Automation. I've been using it for a couple Suresh Vina Jan 27, 2023 3 min read
Python Cisco pyATS - Learn and Diff What is pyATS? Cisco already has excellent documentation about PyATS, so, I will dive straight into an example of how Suresh Vina Jan 24, 2023 11 min read
NetDevOps Palo Alto and Ansible Example In this blog post, I will show you how to use Ansible to deploy configurations to the Palo Alto Firewalls. Suresh Vina Jan 18, 2023 6 min read
Ansible Getting Started with Juniper and Ansible Overview In this blog post, we will go through how to create a simple Ansible Playbook to configure a Juniper Suresh Vina Jan 18, 2023 7 min read
Netmiko Netmiko's Real-World Use Cases - Network Automation Netmiko is arguably one of the great tools for Network Automation. I've been using it for a couple Suresh Vina Jan 17, 2023 4 min read
Juniper Juniper SRX NAT configuration Example In this blog post, we will go through the Juniper SRX NAT configuration examples. We will mainly be focusing on Suresh Vina Jan 13, 2023 10 min read
Python Python Pandas for Network Engineers Overview As a network engineer, I often find myself working with CSV files on a daily basis. For example, if Suresh Vina Jan 6, 2023 7 min read
Juniper Configuring Juniper Junos OS for the first time In this blog post, we will explore Juniper Junos initial configurations. The following example is based on Juniper vSRX running Suresh Vina Jan 6, 2023 2 min read
Python Python List Comprehension Simplified 'Python List Comprehension' is a concise way to create a list. It is a single line of code Suresh Vina Dec 30, 2022 2 min read
Ansible Ansible and Cisco Example (Updated -Cisco.Ios Module) Overview In this blog post, we will go through how to create a simple Ansible Playbook to configure a couple Suresh Vina Dec 21, 2022 10 min read
Cisco Cisco HSRP Configuration Example Why do we need First Hop Redundancy Protocols? Almost all the connected end devices such as laptops, printers, televisions etc Suresh Vina Dec 14, 2022 6 min read
Netmiko How to use TextFSM with Netmiko In this blog post, we will go through the steps required to get structured output from network devices using TextFSM, Suresh Vina Dec 8, 2022 6 min read
PALO-REST-API Palo Alto Create Bulk Address Objects using REST API + Python If you are working with firewalls on a daily basis, at some point you are going to come across having Suresh Vina Dec 3, 2022 4 min read