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Getting started with Salt for network automation, using Docker

The easy way

Posted on April 4, 2018

This is going to be a very short blog post, but hopefully it will provide an easier intro for the (network) engineers that want to get started with Salt to leverage its superpowers for network automation. [Read More]

Running Salt Proxy Minions on OpenBSD

The beginning of the OpenBSD era

Posted on February 14, 2018

As I have previously attempted several times in the past, I am (finally) very close to switch to OpenBSD, a more stable and reliable operating system that I like. Before starting to make the actual change on both personal and work computer, I started testing some of the tools I’m... [Read More]

Python development for infrastructure management using Salt

The overlooked side of Salt and some best practices

Posted on December 19, 2017

One of the (many) things I like about Salt is that it doesn’t have an obscure language of its own: as I always like to say, to start automating all you need to know is YAML and Jinja, 3 rules each. For example, when you need a simple iteration you... [Read More]

Event-driven network automation

Using napalm-logs and Salt

Posted on October 19, 2017

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Installing NAPALM using Salt

The easy way

Posted on July 6, 2017

In one of my previous posts, I have presented how to install NAPALM and Salt. While Salt can be installed directly from the SaltStack Repo, very easy, using Salt Bootstrap, NAPALM requires more steps and there are a few system dependencies you may need to consider. For Salt users there’s... [Read More]