Network Automation Nerds Podcast

Today on the show, we will be talking to Jason Belk. Jason is currently working as a Sr. Technical Advocate in the Learning and Certifications Team. Prior to that role, he worked as a Cisco NSO Developer Evangelist. He has always been passionate about customer experience, community growth, and drive awareness for network automation. 

Jason and I will dive into his personal journey on network automation, NSO API, the NSO sandboxes, learning labs that we all come to love, and many more.

Network Automation Delivery Model (NADM): https://developer.cisco.com/docs/network-automation-delivery-model/
DevNet NSO Dev Center: https://developer.cisco.com/site/nso/
Connect with Jason on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-b-4ab11635/
Follow Jason on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JasonBelk3
Read Jason’s Blogs: https://blogs.cisco.com/author/jasonbelk
Jason at Network Field Day 23: https://techfieldday.com/video/cisco-network-services-orchestrator-architecture/

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Today on the show, we will be talking to Jason Gooley, technical evangelist, author, speaker, philanthropist, founder and host of Metal DevOps. Jason is also known as ‘The God Father of Network Automation’ within the Cisco circle. 

Besides all of the accomplishments, the most striking thing about Jason is his positive attitude and a strong bias for action. 

Jason is a prolific reader and I am somewhat of a bookworm myself. Today I have asked Jason if he can discuss a few non-technical books that he can recommend to our audience to help us build positive attitude, stay motivated, and ultimately achieve our goals, whatever that might be. 

Links

Connect with Jason on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgooley/
Follow Jason on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jason_Gooley 
MetalDevOps Website: https://www.metaldevops.com/
Jason on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jason_gooley/?hl=en
MetalDevOps on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/metaldevops/?hl=en
MetalDevOps on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH39pmGvXPoLMoGocysbvrg
MetalDevOps Origin story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erE8I8gTbQM
Jason’s Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/TheNetworkDeveloper/
The Tech Bookshelf on Facebook: @TheTechBookshelf
Covenant House Sleep Out by Jason: https://www.sleepout.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=36070
Books by Jason: https://www.amazon.com/Jason-Gooley/e/B01L2TXDSI?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1636517702&sr=1-1
Books by Tim Ferris: https://www.amazon.com/Timothy-Ferriss/e/B001ILKBW2/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1
Books by Stephen R. Covey: https://www.amazon.com/Stephen-R-Covey/e/B000AQ2VAQ?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1636517813&sr=8-1
Books by Earl Nightingale: https://www.amazon.com/Earl-Nightingale/e/B001K8R50O?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2&qid=1636517904&sr=8-2  

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Today on the show, we will be talking to my friend Rick Donato. Rick is a big community contributor in the area of network automation. After several years of working in the industry, Rick went on to found a network automation education start-up, Packt Coders.

Packet Coders is a place where people can learn network automation through code, labs, and community. As you can tell, Network Automation is in Rick’s blood. We both share a passion for network automation, except he does it much cooler.

In this episode, I would be talking to Rick about his personal journey, network automation technologies, founding of Packt Coders, and everything in-between. Let's dive right in! 

Follow Rick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rickjdon 
Connect with Rick on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-d-77b502a/
Packet Coders: https://www.packetcoders.io/
Packet Coders Membership: https://www.packetcoders.io/membership 
Packet Coders Newsletter: https://www.packetcoders.io/newsletter
Sizieq’s Time Machine: https://www.packetcoders.io/suzieq-s-network-config-time-machine/

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Python has one of the most open, inclusive, diverse, and welcoming communities you can find. In this episode, we will be talking to two of the top community organizers, Don Sheu and Brian Ray. Don was the co-founder of Pudget Sound Programming Python (PuPPY) and PyCascade (Regional Python conference in the Pacific Northwest) and Entrepreneur. Brian was founder of ChiPy (Chicago Python User Group) and business leader.

In this episode, Brian and Don discuss their philosophy in leadership, growth, technology, and bootstrapping user groups. They shared interesting stories about not their success but also the process and effort behind such endeavors.

Chicago Python User Group: https://www.chipy.org/
PyCascade: https://pycascades.com/
Connect with Don on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donsheu/
Follow Don on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ulysseas
Connect with Brian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianray/
Follow Brian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/brianray?lang=en
AI Podcast: https://www.ai-podcast.com/episodes


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In this episode, we talk to Jonathan Carter (https://twitter.com/LostInTangent), Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, about one of the coolest feature of Visual Studio Code, Live Share.

Visual Studio Live Share enables multiple engineers to quickly collaborate with a friend, colleague, or customer on the same code base without needing a complex set up or copy-paste the code to an external site. 

I am joined by my co-host John Capobiano and Danny Wade to talk to Jon about the reason behind Live Share, the developer experience with Live Share, motivation for the project, security implication, and different application with Live Share.

Come join us and learn about this killer feature that will help you in your developer journey!

Follow Jon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LostInTangent 
Check out Jon’s GitHub projects: https://github.com/lostintangent

Live Share Extension Pack: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MS-vsliveshare.vsliveshare-pack
Live Share Documentation:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/liveshare/use/vscode
Live Share Session from the Browser:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/liveshare/quickstart/browser-join
Live Share Security:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/liveshare/reference/security
Live Share Connectivity:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/liveshare/reference/connectivity
Live Share Common Use Cases:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/liveshare/reference/use-cases
VSCode Live Share: https://code.visualstudio.com/learn/collaboration/live-share 
VSCode Remote SSH: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh
VSCode Remote WSL: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.remote-wsl 

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Follow Danny on Twitter: https://twitter.com/devnetdan 

In this episode, we will be talking to Anton Karneliuk (Team Karneiuk) about the work he has done in network engineering, book authoring, network development, network automation, and his interesting journey into computers.

Anton is an IT and Network Expert and Entrepreneur. He is 2x CCIE (#49412 R&S, SP), co-author of Cisco Press book Network Programmability and Automation Fundamentals, and founder of Team Karneliuk who specializes in Network Development and Automation.

I sat down virtually with Anton to discuss his mindset, passion, and the challenges he faced in his career. I am happy Anton is able to share all of his with all of us in this episode, I hope you enjoy this episode!

Connect with Anton LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anton-karneliuk/ 
Follow Anton on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntonKarneliuk 
Visit Team Karneliuk: https://karneliuk.com/
Training from Anton: https://training.karneliuk.com/
Network Programmability and Automation Fundamentals: https://www.ciscopress.com/store/network-programmability-and-automation-fundamentals-9781587145148
5 Years on Air: https://karneliuk.com/2021/06/5-years-on-air/
pygnmi: https://github.com/akarneliuk/pygnmi
Hawk: https://github.com/karneliuk-com/hawk
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000W94FE6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1) 

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In this episode, we welcome Tushar Gupta, Senior Book Producer from Packt Publishing. Tushar and I aggregated questions from social media about technical book publishing and answered them in this Q&A live stream session on LinkedIn Live and YouTube. We converted this episode to a podcast format and delivered it right to your earbuds for your listening pleasure.

I had a lot of fun talking about a subject I am passionate about. I hope by sharing the experience from Tushar and I, you can also share your technical knowledge in a book format some day in the future. If you do, please do drop me a line, I will be excited to hear about it!

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YouTube Live Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy2UfQSIH2E
Packt Publishing: https://www.packtpub.com/ 
Connect with Tushar on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tushar-gupta-2a998415/

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In this episode, we talked to Jason Edelman, founder and CTO of Network to Code, about his journey in network engineering, network automation, computer networking, and the startup founder experience.

Back in 2014, Jason founded one of the hottest and most successful network automation startup, Network to Code (https://www.networktocode.com/about/). They have been helping companies transform the way their networks are deployed, managed, and consumed by leveraging network automation and DevOps practices. It has been and continues to be an amazing journey, and I am excited to bring Jason's insights to the Network Automation Nerds Podcast audience.

Let's hop right in! 

Links

Connect with Jason on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jedelman8/
Follow Jason on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jedelman8
Network to Code: https://www.networktocode.com/
Network to Code Blog: https://blog.networktocode.com/
TI-84 Calculator with Python: https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/graphing-calculators/ti-84-plus-ce-python 

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Have you thought about learning Python for network automation? Do you wonder what are some of the Python learning resources out there available for learning?

In this episode, we modified the YouTube Live Streaming session between myself and Carl Montanari, long-time network automation practitioner and creator of Scrapli, on different resources available for learning Python for Network Automation.

I hope you find this episode helpful!

[Note] Due to the internet connection quality during the streaming, some of the voice quality is a bit choppy, sorry about that.  

Connect with Carl on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carl-montanari-47888931/
Follow Carl on Twitter: https://twitter.com/carlrmontanari 
Carl's GitHub Repository: https://github.com/carlmontanari
Official Python Tutorial: ​​https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python 2nd Edition: https://automatetheboringstuff.com/
Learn Python 3 The Hard Way: https://shop.learncodethehardway.org/access/buy/9/
Kirk Byers classes: https://pynet.twb-tech.com/
Network Programmability and Automation: https://www.amazon.com/Network-Programmability-Automation-Next-Generation-Engineer/dp/1491931256/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=network+programmability+and+automation&qid=1636383863&s=books&sprefix=network+programma%2Cstripbooks%2C136&sr=1-3
Mastering Python Networking: https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Python-Networking-automation-programmability/dp/1839214678/ref=pd_bxgy_1/137-7323853-5252815?pd_rd_w=pCtqW&pf_rd_p=c64372fa-c41c-422e-990d-9e034f73989b&pf_rd_r=4HP2605PK8VP2VSWZDHZ&pd_rd_r=bb7dc2c3-6b7c-4e91-851b-a6170bd34a7b&pd_rd_wg=648yB&pd_rd_i=1839214678&psc=1
Automate Your Network: https://www.amazon.com/Automate-Your-Network-Introducing-Enterprise-ebook/dp/B07PKDNL78/ref=sr_1_1?crid=XJLZ25DK3AES&keywords=john+capobianco&qid=1636383898&sprefix=john+capobianco%2Caps%2C135&sr=8-1 

Network Engineer Communities: 

• Network Automation Hangout: https://anchor.fm/netauto-hangout
• Art of Network Engineering: https://artofnetworkengineering.com/mentions/artofneteng/
• Network to Code Slack Channel: https://www.networktocode.com/community/

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In this episode, we welcome a fellow content creator and prolific community contributor, Julio Perez! 

Julio is an active community contributor, always willing to lend a helping hand. Recently he completed a six part blog series about his experience in building a network continuous integration / continuous deployment, or CI/CD, pipeline. In this episode, we will be diving deep into the CI/CD pipeline, his experience in tech, and being vulnerable as a content creator. 

I hope you can join me and Julio on his journey down the technology fast lane!

Connect with Julio on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julioperez-pdx/
Follow Julio on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Julio_PDX 
Read Julio’s Blog: https://juliopdx.com/blog/

Building a Network CI/CD Pipeline Part 1: https://juliopdx.com/2021/10/20/building-a-network-ci/cd-pipeline-part-1/ 
Building a Network CI/CD Pipeline Part 2: https://juliopdx.com/2021/10/20/building-a-network-ci/cd-pipeline-part-2/
Building a Network CI/CD Pipeline Part 3: https://juliopdx.com/2021/10/20/building-a-network-ci/cd-pipeline-part-3/
Building a Network CI/CD Pipeline Part 4 : https://juliopdx.com/2021/10/31/building-a-network-ci/cd-pipeline-part-4/
Building a Network CI/CD Pipeline Part 5: https://juliopdx.com/2021/11/08/building-a-network-ci/cd-pipeline-part-5/
Building a Network CI/CD Pipeline Part 6: https://juliopdx.com/2021/11/12/building-a-network-ci/cd-pipeline-part-6/ 

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