Thoughts on networking, automation, and IT
This tutorial walks through an intermediate, production-minded approach to **gitlab ci cd network automation** using a GitOps workflow: NetBox as the source of truth, Ansible for orchestration and templating, and Netmiko
Read More →GitOps has matured beyond application delivery. For enterprise networks, it can turn “network intent + review + promotion” into a repeatable, auditable process—without giving up on practical realities like device quirks,
Read More →Intermittent **bgp** route flaps in a large Cisco datacenter are rarely “just BGP.” They’re usually symptoms of one (or more) of these: control-plane stress, intermittent physical errors, MTU/PMTUD issues, software defec
Read More →## Overview and architecture: how NetBox, Git repos, GitLab runners (Docker), and Ansible fit together for a GitOps flow in datacenter networking This tutorial builds a practical GitOps pipeline where **NetBox** is the s
Read More →Provisioning BGP across hundreds (or thousands) of devices is mostly a data problem: you need a consistent source of truth, strong modeling conventions, deterministic rendering, safe deployment mechanics, and repeatable
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