Ryan Merolle
Ryan Merolle / Network Engineering / Infrastructure Automation
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Blogs of Note I Follow
/dev/null
- Sorin Sbarnea
/overlaid
- Dave Varnum
Anton Karneliuk
Automate Your Network
- John Capobianco
Brian Linkletter
Dave.dev
- David Gee
dravetech
- David Barroso
Federico Olivieri on Medium
Hank Preston @ Cisco Blog
- Official Cisco Blog filtering on Hank's posts
ifconfig.it
- Gian Paolo
ipSpace.net
- One of the best resources for Networking, Infra, & Automation! - Ivan Pepelnjak
Joel McGuire on Medium
Josh VanDeraa
Kontrol Issues
- Chris Young
Matt Oswalt
Netpanda's Blog
- David Flores
Network Automatic
- Jeremy Schulman
Network OP
- Super smart DevOps focused NetworkEng - Michael Kashin
Networking Tips by Solomon Yang
NetworkLore
- Patrick Ogenstad
NWMichl Blog
- Michael Schön
OzNetNerd.com
- Will Robinson
Packet Coders (Formally Packet Flow)
- One of the best new resources for Networking Automation! - Rick Donato
Packet Life
- Jeremy Stretch
Packet Pushers
Scott's Weblog
- Scott Lowe
StubArea51.net
- Kevin Myers
The ForwardingPlane
- Nick Buraglio
The HFT Guy
The NetworkToCode Blog
Thierolf.org
- Stefan Thierolf
TTL255
- Przemek Rogala
Projects of Note I Follow
Network Automation
Arista AVD Dev Docker Image
- Great reference for building your own devcontainer
Arista AVD for Ansible
- Ansible collections built around Arista Validated Designs & way more
Awesome Network Automation
- Curated list of Network Automation Links
Batfish
- An open source network configuration analysis tool
Capirca
- Multi-platform ACL generation system
CONTAINERlab
- Tool for the management of container based network albs
drawthe.net
- YAML based Network Diagrams
NetBox
- IPAM, DCIM, & the tools to integrate with it
netcli-highlight
- Syntax Highlighter for Juniper/Cisco/Arista CLI (Via SSH)
NetOps Quickstart
- Not a software project, but IAC example repo pulling many operational components together.
netsim-tools
- Tool for the management of virtual network labs
Network Icons in SVG
Networking Icons
- SVG/PNG Networking Icons
Nornir
- A Python automation framework for network automation
Peering Manager
- A BGP session management tool.
Snipe-IT
- IT Asset Management
Topology Converter
- Simplifies Vagrant Topology File Creation
vrnetlab
- Run virtual routers with docker
Monitoring/Performance
BGP Dashboard
- A "realtime" web view of your BGP network
BGPalerter
- BGP Alert tool for Tracking changes to your Public ASN or Prefix.
EOS TIG Stack Repo
HyperGlass
- Modern Looking Glass project for views into BGP
LibreNMS
- A fully featured network monitoring system.
Orb.
- A new network observability platform based on pktvisor.
SuzieQ
- Full Network observability
DevOps (CI Pipelines, Containers, etc)
Ansible
- Infrastructure automation
Ansible Molecule
- Ansible Role Unit Testing
Ansible-Lint
- Checks playbooks for practices & behaviour that could potentially be improved.
ARA
- Ansible Output Recorder/Visualizer
cytopia/docker-ansible
- Collection of ansible docker containers for running in CI pipelines.
dyff
- YAML Diff tool
GitLabs
- git hosting & CI/CD Platform
Homebrew
- The Missing Package Manager for macOS (or Linux)
How They Test
- A curated collection of publicly available resources on how software companies around the world test their software systems and build their quality culture.
jsondiff
- JSON Diff tool
Markdwonlint-cli
- Test your that your Markdown is valid & follows good form.
pipeline-components
- Collection of docker containers for running in gitlab pipelines. Designed to be small & fast
Pre-Commit
- A framework for managing & maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.
Schema-Enforcer
- A framework for testing structured data against schema definitions.
VS Code
- IDE & more
VS Code Remote Collection
win-get CLI
- MS offical brew/pip like package manager
YAMLLint
- Test your that your YAML is valid & follows good form.