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The principles and definitions of automation/programming is something that I am personally fairly passionate about. This is largely because I have spent so much time doing things the

Wrapping up our presentations at Networking Field Day 21 last week, I was fortunate to spend some time discussing NetBox and its role as a robust source of

This past week I had the honor and privilege of traveling out to Santa Clara, CA with some of my esteemed colleagues to participate in Networking Field Day

It was a milestone week for Network to Code. We had the opportunity to present last Thursday at Networking Field Day 21 in San Jose, California. This turned

Members of the Network to Code team recently made their way down to sunny Atlanta for our third year as AnsibleFest sponsors. As regular users of the platform,

I’ve been using using VSCode for development for a little while and was excited when Microsoft announced they were developing extensions to attach to running containers and allow

Do you have a network device or server that can only be reached behind a jumphost? This is not an uncommon scenario, as security best practice often requires

I recently brought up the usefulness of custom NSO Actions in a Twitter discussion with several Cisco friends, and promised to provide a brief demo to illustrate how

As I’m sure you know, we here at Network to Code are regular Ansible users – Ansible not only allows us to quickly start automating networks for our

A few years ago, Ansible introduced a very useful feature called –diff that has yet to be widely adopted in the network industry. If you are already using

Updating a list or dictionary within python is a trivial manner, however within Ansible and Jinja, it is not as easy or well defined. The user must understand

Ansible’s ability to merge variables from host/group vars in an intelligent way and futher allow those variables to be accessed per host truly is a great feature. However,