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In Datanauts episode 80, we bemoaned the state of network automation. In the many comments we received on that episode, one especially stuck out to me. Here’s a paraphrase. “Tools like Cisco Network Services Orchestrator can automate an entire network, and not just push config changes box by box. Y…

In the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, the phrase “Don’t Panic” is written across the front to help the reader keep a cool head when facing the dangers of galactic hitchhiking. This may sound like dealing with IT problems–especially when the root cause is a cryptic e…

There’s a flurry of activity around network automation, lots of discussion about its impacts, and a host of open-source and commercial tools available. But actual adoption? Not so much. Today’s Datanauts podcast explores NRE Labs, a free site to train network engineers in basic automati…

If you’re a modern sort of infrastructure engineer, you’re likely interested in APIs. Structured data, everybody. That’s a big win. RESTful APIs are the most common you’re likely to run into when managing infrastructure, and on today’s show I interview Chris all about RESTful API fundamentals. Your…

Hello, IT architect. Business person here. We have this huge new project for you. We have an idea for this new system that’s going to make us all sorts of money. It can never go down, because it’s going to be SO IMPORTANT. It’s got to be super secure, too, obviously. Your budget is…three doll…

Somewhere in your network, there’s at least one exploitable vulnerability. Maybe it’s a really bad one. Maybe it’s not that bad. Do you know what the vulnerability is? Do you have a way to explain to the business the risk it represents? Do you have a strategy to fix it or otherwise mitigate the ris…

I hear about companies that create net new DevOps roles and hire “DevOps Engineers” to fill them. And then those DevOps people fail in their roles, because no one wants to deal with the additional processes they tend to create. I’ve wondered if hiring specific DevOps roles is doing it wrong. Is a t…

Greg Ferro, Packet Pushers podcast network co-founder, has commandeered the Datanauts bridge to take over today’s episode. At the recent Google Next 19 conference, Greg sat down for a far-ranging roundtable conversation with three IT professionals who shared their expertise on chaos engineeri…

Today’s Datanauts episode springs from a deeply personal blog post written by our guest, Al Rasheed. Al talks about the costs of an IT career; how the long hours and the stress can eat away at your personal and family life, negatively affect your health, and make you feel like a failure. We d…