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Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, we discuss a new ChatOps feature in Palo Alto’s Prisma SD-WAN. Engineers and administrators can query the SD-WAN controller from a chat app such as Microsoft Teams and get a meaningful response. Sutapa Bansal, Director of Product Management at Palo Alto Networks, joins us to discuss how it works, use cases, and implementation.

Do you need new hardware to cloud enable your infrastructure ? Should you strategise products on new hardware/greenfield basis or enable your existing brownfield infrastructure ? In this episode we discuss value of enabling existing infrastructure Beware of the vendor goldfield that Greenfield represents Whether supply chain impacts your decisions ? The value of federated... Read more »

This week's Network Break asks whether Broadcom's acquisition of AppNeta, which offers SaaS-based digital experience monitoring, is a good fit. We look at new features in the SONiC network OS, dive into a new firewall service available from Cloudflare, and more IT news.

Let’s talk sources of truth for network automation today. You okay with that? Excellent, glad to have you on board for this conversation with Jason Edelman and John Anderson of NetworkToCode.

We’re going to discuss a Nautobot, an open-source software tool that can serve as a network source of truth for automation. If you’ve used NetBox, Nautobot will have a rather familiar feel.

We discuss:

* How Nautobot differs from NetBox

* Using Nautobot with Python and Ansible

* Nautobot use cases including source of truth, an app platform, and for automation

* Major features

* Architecture recommendations

* Nautobot limitations

* What’s on the roadmap

Show Links:

Nautobot Home – NetworkToCode

Nautobot Posts on NetworkToCode Blog

Nautobot – GitHub

Nautobot Community – GitHub

NetworkToCode Slack

@jedelman8 – Jason Edelman on Twitter

John Anderson on LinkedIn

Dolt Database – Dolthub

Day Two Cloud 121: Building Cool Things With GraphQL And AWS AppSync – Packet Pushers

Heavy Networking 452: Using NetBox As A Source Of Networking Truth – Packet Pushers

On today's Heavy Networking we discuss a Nautobot, an open-source software tool that can serve as a source of truth for network automation. We explore how Nautobot works, what it's used for, how it ties in with Python and Ansible, major features, and more.

There are a lot of good things you can do with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for automation, repeatability, and ease of operations and development. But there are also code and infrastructure pitfalls where you can tumble into a hole, break your leg, and get eaten by spiders. OK, maybe not  that bad, but on today's episode we talk about potential IaC pitfalls and how to avoid them with guest Tim Davis.

Today's Tech Bytes podcast is a security conversation--specifically security fabrics or ‘security mesh’ architectures: an integrated set of products that work together to help you manage risk in the network, on endpoints, and to do things like improve detection and response. Fortinet is our sponsor.

Today's Network Break covers two AWS announcements including a private 5G offering and new networking service, discusses why the FTC is against Nvidia acquiring Arm Holdings, examines a new security feature in Aviatrix, and more tech news.

Today's Heavy Networking considers the current state of networking technologies and the networking market. We debate whether we've seen any significant innovations over the past year, if the industry has stagnated, or if we're simply trying to stay on top of disruptions caused by cloud, Covid, and the erosion of traditional network boundaries. We also discuss how network engineers and the industry are dealing with complexity, if organizations can "cloud" their way out of legacy problems, and more.

In this episode Ed, Scott, and Tom chat about Unique Local Addresses (ULAs), what they are, how they are used, when (or if) you should use them in your networks.