The future is APIs! SD-EVERYTHING! Automation! Orchestration! Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning! Sound familiar? It’s all part of the messaging going around in just about everything IT-related. With as much as you keep hearing about it, you might think that it’s all anyone is doing anymore.…
I have always said that I’m not sure I could write code for a living, but I do really enjoy writing scripts that make my life easier. Today’s post is a great example of that. The ease of use offered by the Juniper SRX firewalls and…
Maybe 2018 isn’t off to quite the best start. Recent processor vulnerabilities have people scrambling to patch and update systems. Stuff like this ends up being a fairly large sink of time for any systems/network administrator. The worst part is that we have practically no control of…
This is a multi-part series – If you just hit this page, please check out the prior posts first! Part 1 – Initial Thoughts Part 2 – Leaning Django Part 3 – Creating the Dashboard Alright – We’re finally at the last step to this project. We already…
This is a multi-part series – If you just hit this page, please check out the prior posts first! Part 1 – Initial Thoughts Part 2 – Leaning Django In the last post, we got Django working well enough to start serving up web requests. That’s a great…
This is a multi-part series – If you just hit this page, please check out the prior posts first! Part 1 – Initial Thoughts Once I figured out the overall idea behind what I wanted to do – the next big part was figuring out where to start. As I…
So maybe you’re like me – you’ve done a bit of everything in the past, but now you’ve specialized on something (like networking). Know what the best part of that is? Using all that knowledge and experience to make things happen. In this case,…
This guide is written for CentOS 7. If you’re running another distro, find your dependencies here Last year we had to begin migrating off of some of our older Juniper SSG firewalls since we were beginning to push them to their throughput limits. We evaluated a couple of…