Learning By Doing with NRE Labs

This was my presentation tech covering NRE Labs at Network Field Day 20 (https://techfieldday.com/event/nfd20/)

Video is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2k-BXzLp_Y

Transcript

1. Learning Automation by DOING with NRE Labs Matt Oswalt Product Marketing Manager, Juniper Networks 1
2. The Next 30 Minutes Thought Leadering 2
3. The Next 30 Minutes Thought Leadering What We’ve Built 3
4. The Next 30 Minutes Thought Leadering What We’ve Built Peek Behind the Curtain 4
5. The Next 30 Minutes Thought Leadering What We’ve Built Peek Behind the Curtain Matt Trying Really Hard Not To Speak Too Fast 5
6. The Next 30 Minutes 100% Matt Trying Really Hard Not To Speak Too Fast 6
7. The Automation Last Mile Networks (technology) Networking (people) success Automation is an operational paradigm 7
8. Network Reliability Engineering NrE Familiar terms, inclusive of current skills. Existing skill-sets represented right in name. nRe Represents a better way of doing things. Emphasizes the true goal of automation https://juniper.net/us/en/products-services/what-is/nre/ Codify Automate Test Monitor Measure Simplify 8
9. NRE Labs • Totally browser-based • Free, no login/email • Vendor-neutral • Open Source (curriculum too!) • Workflow is King Community platform for learning and teaching automation and Network Reliability Engineering 9
10. NRE Labs • Introductory to Moderate • Vendor-Neutral • Focused on workflows 10 • Deeper “Next Step” • Juniper Focus • Reference, community EngNet
11. Workflows Are King 11
12. Workflows Are King (but the devil’s in the details) 12
13. Today Automated Workflow 13
14. Today Configuration Management Fundamentals Workflow Tools Data Modeling Templating Ansible Salt Scripting 14
15. Today Compliance Validation Fundamentals Workflow Tools YAML Jinja Python NAPALM JSNAPy Bash 15
16. Looking Behind The Curtain 16
18. Antidote syringe antidote-web NRE Labs Platform Curriculum Infrastructure Kubernetes Google Cloud (GCE) others... Antidote Architectural Overview 18
19. syringe nginx ingress-controller Antidote as Deployed in Kubernetes guacamole Requests grpc REST antidote-web guacd Namespace 12-abcdef vqfx Namespace 14-fedcba vqfx jupyter HTTP HTTP HTTP Kubernetes API Server HTTP SSH Lesson Instances Syringe Health Checks 19
20. Namespace: 12-abcdef linux vqfx3 jupyter Jobs stoneage jupyter-iframe config-vqfx1 Anatomy of a Lesson net-vqfx1-vqfx2 vqfx2 vqfx1 linux vqfx3 jupyter vqfx2 vqfx1 net-vqfx1-vqfx2 net-vqfx1-vqfx2 config-vqfx1 config-vqfx1 Networks (CRD) Ingresses NetworkPolicy Services Pods Syringe communicates directly with the Kubernetes API to orchestrate all this on-demand, based on lesson definitions loaded at startup. 20
21. vqfx1 vqfx2 vqfx3 Pod Network (CNI plugin i.e. Linux Bridge) eth0 eth0 eth0 Normal Kubernetes Pod Networking 21
22. Using Multus for Advanced Network Topologies Pod s Networks (CRD) https://github.com/intel/multus-cni 22 Alternatives: • QEMU L2TP • NetworkServiceMesh
24. Resources • EngNet slack • github.com/nre-learning • antidoteproject.rtfd.io • @NRELabs https://labs.networkreliability.engineering Contributions • Use NRE Labs and open issues! • Lesson Contributions - new or existing • Platform enhancements/fixes 24