011 — scrapligo, parsing snowflake outputs, software patterns, code maintenance and quality

Guest: Marcus Hines (Google) Topics: - Kubernetes-based Network Emulation (KNE) Recorded live on 2021-10-14 Bi-weekly recordings with the community on Thursdays at 6 PM CET / 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT

Guest: Daniel Teycheney (@danielteycheney) Topics: - Pulumi AWS Native provider: https://www.pulumi.com/blog/announcing-aws-native/ - Open Traffic Generator — common API for traffic generators: https://github.com/open-traffic-generator - motherstarter — transformation of network inventory between different formats: https://github.com/writememe/motherstarter - How to select the right tool for the network automation tasks Recorded live on 2021-09-30 Bi-weekly recordings with the community on Thursdays at 6 PM CET / 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT

Topics: - Carl's newest project — Boxen, alternative to vrnetlab, which allows to package a network operating system VM in a container - Vendors publishing native containers with their network operating system - Using web framework to power network automation - Central network automation controller vs security team Recorded live on 2021-09-16 Bi-weekly recordings with the community on Thursdays at 6 PM CET / 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT

Topics: - Carl's experience with Pulumi compared to Terraform - Converting Python scripts to Ansible playbooks - Upskilling the team on network automation Recorded live on 2021-09-02 Bi-weekly recordings with the community on Thursdays at 6 PM CET / 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT

Topics: - News about scrapligo, scraplicfg and scrapli-netconf in go - How to deal with parsing snowflake outputs - Software patterns, code maintenance and quality Recorded live on 2021-08-19 Bi-weekly recordings with the community on Thursdays at 6 PM CET / 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT

In this episode we spent most of the time talking with the community Topics: - NetBox 3.0 - How to grow from a beginner to an advanced network automation engineer? - 3D graphs for network operations data Recorded live on 2021-07-22 Bi-weekly recordings with the community on Thursdays at 6 PM CET / 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT

Guest: David Gee (@_ipengineer) Topics: - Juniper Terraform Automation Framework (JTAF) - Future of a network engineer - Merlin — Network automation / Infrastructure as Code project by John Capobianco (@John_Capobianco) Recorded live on 2021-07-08 Bi-weekly recordings with the community on Thursdays at 6 PM CET / 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT

Guest: Michael Kashin (@networkop1) Topics: - should YANG be replaced? Related Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/networkop1/status/1390580547387330561 - our outage stories Book: Python testing with pytest, second edition: https://pragprog.com/titles/bopytest2/python-testing-with-pytest-second-edition/ Recorded live on 2021-06-24 Bi-weekly recordings with the community on Thursdays at 6 PM CET / 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT

Topics: - YANG - What do you do when the management wants you to use an already purchased network automation tool? Book: Network programmability with YANG https://www.amazon.com/Network-Programmability-YANG-Structure-Automation-ebook/dp/B07RMK59YC Recorded live on 2021-06-10 Bi-weekly recordings with the community on Thursdays at 6 PM CET / 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT

Topics: - scrapligo has been published (https://github.com/scrapli/scrapligo) - gNMI - Differences between file formats: XML, JSON, YAML, TOML, protobuf - x2 faster CPython 3.11 (https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/13/guido_van_rossum_cpython_3_11/) Recorded live on 2021-05-27 Bi-weekly recordings with the community on Thursdays at 6 PM CET / 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT