Learning By Doing with NRE Labs

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Learning Automation by DOING with NRE Labs Matt Oswalt Product Marketing Manager, Juniper Networks 1

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The Next 30 Minutes Thought Leadering 2

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The Next 30 Minutes Thought Leadering What We’ve Built 3

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The Next 30 Minutes Thought Leadering What We’ve Built Peek Behind the Curtain 4

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The Next 30 Minutes Thought Leadering What We’ve Built Peek Behind the Curtain Matt Trying Really Hard Not To Speak Too Fast 5

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The Next 30 Minutes 100% Matt Trying Really Hard Not To Speak Too Fast 6

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The Automation Last Mile Networks (technology) Networking (people) success Automation is an operational paradigm 7

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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

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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

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NRE Labs ● Introductory to Moderate ● Vendor-Neutral ● Focused on workflows 10 ● Deeper “Next Step” ● Juniper Focus ● Reference, community EngNet

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Workflows Are King 11

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Workflows Are King (but the devil’s in the details) 12

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Today Automated Workflow 13

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Today Configuration Management Fundamentals Workflow Tools Data Modeling Templating Ansible Salt Scripting 14

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Today Compliance Validation Fundamentals Workflow Tools YAML Jinja Python NAPALM JSNAPy Bash 15

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Looking Behind The Curtain 16

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Antidote syringe antidote-web NRE Labs Platform Curriculum Infrastructure Kubernetes Google Cloud (GCE) others... Antidote Architectural Overview 18

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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

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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

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vqfx1 vqfx2 vqfx3 Pod Network (CNI plugin i.e. Linux Bridge) eth0 eth0 eth0 Normal Kubernetes Pod Networking 21

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Using Multus for Advanced Network Topologies Pod s Networks (CRD) https://github.com/intel/multus-cni 22 Alternatives: ● QEMU L2TP ● NetworkServiceMesh

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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