NRE Labs / NRE Labs In The Wild

Matt Oswalt, Network Reliability Engineer at Juniper Networks, presents "Highlighting Network Automation Bright Spots with NRE Labs” at the Networking Summit at Interop 2019.

NRE Labs is the best community platform for learning about network reliability engineering. The future of connectivity and availability will come from professionals doing more in software and learning the concepts behind true reliability.

Recorded at Networking Field Day 20 in San Jose, CA on February 13, 2019. For more information, please visit http://Juniper.net or http://TechFieldDay.com/event/nfd20/

Speakers: Matt Oswalt https://twitter.com/mierdin + David Gee https://twitter.com/vtep42 (Juniper)
Slides: https://gitpitch.com/nre-learning/inog10-nre/master?grs=github&t=black
Suggest a talk https://inog.net/talk

It’s been a journey discovering DevNetOps and network reliability engineering. With help from peers and NRE friends, I’ve faced debate and dogma forged in the fiery cynicism of the networking I&O silo. To share these lessons, let’s overturn some anti-patterns and deceptions.

Original blog:
https://jameskelly.net/blog/2018/3/20/seven-deadly-deceptions-of-network-automation

Shared on DZone:
https://dzone.com/articles/seven-deadly-deceptions-of-network-automation-podc

The recording of the network programmability stream which occurred on 2018/02/17

On this stream I explored NRE labs – the platform where you can learn network automation by doing labs directly in the browser https://labs.networkreliability.engineering/
The main creator of the project Matt Oswalt (https://twitter.com/Mierdin) also joined us in the chat and was answering questions!
I was doing Robot framework and StackStorm labs.

Timecode:
0:00 – Introduction
1:23 – Top of mind this week
3:25 – NRE Labs
8:00 – NRE Labs architecture
13:30 – NRE Labs – Robot Framework: Introduction
33:20 – NRE Labs – Robot Framework: Testing cases for Junos
43:10 – NRE Labs – Robot Framework: Best Practices
1:03:59 – NRE Labs – StackStorm: CLI and Basic Concepts
1:29:00 – NRE Labs – StackStorm: Actions
1:52:20 – NRE Labs – StackStorm: Workflows
2:15:05 – NRE Labs – StackStorm: Automating the Troubleshooting Chain
2:24:35 – NRE Labs – StackStorm: Sensors and Triggers
2:41:40 – NRE Labs – StackStorm: Events
2:48:15 – Impressions about StackStorm and Robot Framework
2:52:20 – Conclusions, summary and wrap-up

Resources:
Interview with David Bombal (about my background, network automation, Python, Nornir, Ansible, machine learning and certs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9hw0gustB8
NRE Labs: https://labs.networkreliability.engineering/


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Network automation does not an automated network make. Today’s network engineers are frequently guilty of two indulgences. First, random acts of automation hacking. Second, pursuing aspirational visions of networking grandeur — complete with their literary adornments like “self-driving” and “intent-driven” — without a plan or a healthy automation practice to take them there.

Can a Middle Way be found, enabling engineers to set achievable goals, while attaining the broader vision of automated networks as code? Taking some inspiration from our software engineering brethren doing DevOps, I believe so.

Here we discuss how NOT to automate and set the groundwork for network reliability engineering (NRE) culture and behaviors of DevNetOps

Original article shared by:
https://thenewstack.io/end-network-automation-know-feel-fine/

Original blog:
https://jameskelly.net/blog/2017/7/25/its-the-end-of-network-automation-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-fine

Date:
July 5, 2017

image credit Bell System telephone switchboard, circa 1943, from the U.S. National Archives.