Welcome to my blog!

Hello, my name is Anirudh Kamath. I am a Network Automation engineer, who enjoys spreading knowledge about matters I am passionate about. One of these matters is software tools that help manage computer infrastructure efficiently.

I am attempting to maintain a collection of posts on technologies used in the area of network automation and programmability. Oh, and please do feel free to open pull requests on my GitHub repository in case you want to contribute as well. I am excited to learn together with you!

General

• Basics of Git
• Automated fetching of Git refs
• Managing projects with Poetry
• Maintaining data for network automation
• Using Invoke to run shell tasks

Interfacing with network devices

• Consuming data from network devices
• Using NAPALM to gather information from network devices
• Making a chatbot to get information from your network devices

Ansible

• Basics of Ansible
• Using Ansible for compliance reports

Parsing

• About TextFSM and how can it be used
• Using the genie parser

Network monitoring/telemetry

• Network telemetry using NETCONF, Telegraf, and Prometheus