IPv6 Council London - 2022 (Meta)

I truly enjoyed the last IPv6 Council meeting in London. It's always interesting to hear about the other people experience with a technology, in this case.. IPv6.  There were quite a few people giving a presentation and how they IPv6 deployment is going, so that was interesting!  

I personally have been pushing the IPv6 agenda and I consider myself as an IPv6 advocate, because I understand the business need for it, and most of the people I have deployed carrier-grade NAT (large scale), and I also remember when I took the last IPv4 range from RIPE. 

I guess, I will finish this post with - if anyone is interested in IPv6, the IPv6 Council London is free, and it's quite interesting!

Link: https://www.ipv6.org.uk/

DC with Arista Networks

I got this fantastic opportunity to deploy new clouds based on Arista Networks VXLAN fabric. The solution included Arista CloudVision (known as CVP), AVD and of course, the Arista switches. The first thing I was impressed with was the simplicity that Cloud Vision brings on the table for both deployment of new configurations and visibility. 

We were waiting for the hardware to arrive, and all we got was the CVP installed and ready, so we did a bit of work e.g. getting the configlets ready and when the hardware arrived we plugged all the optics and connected the fibres. In that moment one of my colleagues who didn't have experience with Arista decided to go around and check for any obvious errors, so he did not find anything than just couple of links require fibre change, not a big deal. On the next day, we start exploring what can be observed via CVP, and we found it actually start reporting packet drops/ and errors via the telemetry that is supported via Terminattr telemetry agent created by Arista. 

The second thing that I personally liked was the familiar CLI interface. When you login to the device - it simply looks familiar, e.g. it looks like Cisco. I work in environment with multiple vendors and to be honest, I struggle some times with some of them, like, Nokia. I find the CLI being a bit tricky. (To admit, I don't work with Nokia CLI that much) but eOS is powerful and easy to use. 

The third thing its worth mentioning is my experience with the TAC. After just couple of interactions with them, I hate them!lol. Now I will expect the same experience with every other company I work with :) these guys set the bar a bit too high. (I have story I would like to tell, but I don't think it's a good idea to write it in a blog). 

One more thing I wanted to mention. I had great time reading the "Arista Warrior" book. I don't think I ever laughed at tech book before, but this one made my late evenings after work when the kids were asleep.

It's been almost 2 years since I joined Juniper's SD-WAN "Contrail Service Orchestration" project and I am a bit sad leaving some great people behind and it was a tough decision but I couldn't spent enough time with my family.  I will definitely miss my time with Juniper Networks. 

python

always wanted to do more coding and I was doing some of the basic challenges on hackerrank recently and I am so disappointed in myself; I haven't written anything for a while and now struggling.

JNPR

wow, it's been more than a year since I joined this new opportunity working on service orchestration project for SD-WAN and it's great, as I am doing a bit more hand-on work. I kind of missed the 'console' if I can use that expression.. :)

Corporate culture

Hello,

I didn't write many posts this year... again.. anyway, something that triggered me to write this post was an article on LinkEdin about  "Corporate culture".  I couldn't find the article so I can post it as part of this post, which I am sorry about! :(

I haven't think much about what happens of my working environment when new people join the organisation but recently I found myself being one of the quite few old employees of the company I work at - wow, however, back to the topic - number of new people joined from different other companies, some of them were quite pro-active, other quite pro-passive - other negatively pro-active and then I found myself coming in the office and people don't even respond to 'Good Morning' and start wondering what happen with the fun to work with other people and corroborate on different technical challenges.  I assume everyone had one of those days when was asking himself on the way to work - "what happened?" - I could dive a lot on this topic, but prefer to keep it simple.

I guess the problem is .. culture.. but not corporate culture, it's about personal culture.



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BaaS

I would like to introduce a new IT term.. "BaaS", to those who are familiar with the cloud terminologies like Infrastructure-as-a-Service or Software-as-a-Service, this is nothing a like :) -  it actually means two things "Bullshitting-as-a-service" and "Bullshitting-as-a-skill".