Why Insomnia and not Postman?
Well, answer is straightforward – apples vs oranges. Somewhat I prefer Insomnia, though it is just a simplistic API client. But this is exactly what I normally need without additional features and Insomnia seems to be fulfilling my daily needs. Depending on against what environm…
AWS CloudFormer
Creating in AWS can performed using multiple ways: AWS CLI AWS SDK (Java/Python/JS) IT automation/IaaC tools (Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Ansible, SaltStack, Pulumi) REST API directly CloudFormation templates First 3 underneath are using REST API, but using directly REST API to cr…
Terraform or Pulumi for IaC
Terraform by Hashicorp is a pioneer in the area of IaC tooling which allows to define infrastructure in a declarative manner by using its own language (HCL – Hashicorp Configuration Language). That means: it takes definition of the infrastructure (simplistic example could be a c…
ConfD – making your network elements programmable
Tail-F, originally a Swedish company bought over by Cisco Systems, created a management agent software framework for network elements and applications – ConfD. If employed as a part of software – ConfD allows to be programmability an inherent part of it. This post will us a very …
Automatically provisioning baremetal/VM server
During my endavours I had a situation where I had to provision 10 servers (install all of them manually and configure same things on all of them, same files etc). There is a nice alternative to it called Stacki from StackIQ (bought by Teradata last year). What it offers is specia…
Connecting over SSH and running a command over NETCONF
When HW/virtualized/containerized network element offers NETCONF interface to manage, it is extremely beneficial to use it for repetitive tasks (upgrades, sanity checking, route table checking etc). NETCONF can be used over different transports as below: netconf-ssh 830/tcp …