NOG

APNIC 56 is happening next month in Kyoto, Japan. This would be my third-time travel to Japan and besides meeting network operators around the region at the event, I will be doing a one-day tutorial on Network automation with Christoff Visser from IIJ research labs and Abdul Awal from APNIC. The agenda is similar to (though a subset) of network automation workshops I have done over the last few months across different events. Tutorial typically is a “view only” event where the audience would be presented with content in the form of slides, live terminal demo etc. It does not involve a hands-on workshop for the attendees as one day time won’t support that.

Next week SANOG (South Asia Network Operator Group) event will start in Kathmandu, Nepal. I will be instructing on a 4-day workshop on Network Automation with two fellow instructors. The idea of this workshop is to make fellow Ops / Network engineers familiar with concepts of Docker, Ansible, and Gitlab CI/CD pipeline and ultimately to make use of REST APIs to bind these all together.

This is the first time I am doing such a workshop and the content here is built from scratch. On the positive side, it gives good flexibility on content but the challenge is to stick on time. Since content is not tested before, there will always be a risk of going “too slow” or “too fast”. The goal by the end of the workshop is to ensure that attendees can build up event-driven automation. They should be able to set up a system where “if x happens” then “action y is triggered”. This can fit a wide variety of use cases.

And here goes my first post for 2017. The start of this year did not go well as I broke my hand in Jan and that resulted in a lot of time loss. Now I am almost recovered and in much better condition. I just attended HKNOG 4.0 at Hong Kong followed by APRICOT 2017 at Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. an event and I enjoyed the both. Here’s my presentation from APRICOT 2017. I recently I came across some of crazy confusing traceroutes as passed by one of my friends. I cannot share that exact traceroute on this blog post but can produce the same effect about which I am posting by doing a trace from one of large network like Telia London PoP to one of the Indian destinations via their looking glass

Out in Mumbai to attend SANOG 26.

Meet and greet if you are attending as well or around in Mumbai. :)