Bruce Wallis

Kiwi 🇳🇿, Networking geek, perpetual student, budding photographer, product manager. All tweets are my own. #NetworkAutomation #NetDevOps #NetOps #YANG

[Roman Dodin @ntdvps]

🫂Let's talk about community tools in our networking walled garden?

When we launched the SR Linux @discord server, it was unclear if it would work.

Launching a community venue starts with deciding which venue to choose from.
Ranging from well-known and loved/hated by many Slack all the way to some niche and/or open-source tools like gitter.

Despite being predominantly seen as a tool used by gamers and streamers, I put my finger on Discord.
Strong markdown support and non-destructive history in the free version was enough to beat Slack. So we rolled it.

As you can imagine, it was initially friends and family with little to no convos. A new "another" tool to use for chatting about a "niche" but fantastic NOS stood in the way of newcomers.

But with time we started to see members showing up, and conversations sprung up. Funny enough, our engineers started having (public) conversations in Discord instead of MS Teams.

When I was a customer myself, I would have offered my leg and arm to have a venue to talk with the vendor's engineers. This is precisely what we do at SR Linux Discord - maintaining a professional relationship with our users and helping them navigate the new NOS.

We had a great case with @fatred becoming (happy) SR Linux customer purely based on interactions via Discord.

Not saying that Discord was a silver bullet for us, but it definitely lives up to our expectations for a chat-based community tool that is pleasant to use.

Come join the community; you won't regret it.
https://t.co/2cDALIdSrd

[Bruce Wallis @bwallislol]

@ntdvps 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I for one fully embrace our new AI overlords.

[Patrick McCabe @mccabep15]

The #NFD29 is underway! Next up is @Erwan12 to discuss the very cool capability, the Digital Sandbox.
https://t.co/ZzcyHwLWrj
#datacenter #fabric #NetOps #DigitalTwin

[Patrick McCabe @mccabep15]

The #NFD29 is underway! Next up is @pdellaert
to discuss the very cool capability, the "Connect" microservice. Connecting the world of apps with the world of networking.
https://t.co/ZzcyHwLWrj
#datacenter #fabric #NetOps #DigitalTwin

[Patrick McCabe @mccabep15]

The #NFD29 is underway! A brief evolution of #DevOps and how it applies to #NetOps is being discussed by @bwallislol
https://t.co/ZzcyHwLWrj
#datacenter #fabric #NetOps #networkautomation

[Patrick McCabe @mccabep15]

The #NFD29 is underway! Telemetry-driven event management demo is about to start delivered by
@bwallislol. The granularity of the NOS data from SRLinux is amazing.

https://t.co/ZzcyHwLWrj
#datacenter #fabric #NetOps #networkautomation

[Roman Dodin @ntdvps]

Hey all,
In two weeks we will be holding a special Network Automation Hangout dedicated to "Kubernetes Network Emulation" project that is led by Google.

A special guest - Marcus Hines - the tech lead of this project will join us to tell us all about it.

[wim henderickx @WHenderickx]

#srlinux for the open. No registration required and fully open, so hope people enjoy. Would love some feedback. https://t.co/jPyqLYLoi9

[Roman Dodin @ntdvps]

The always-on srlinux instance is powered by ⁦@mysocketio⁩ and has $0 running costs.

The entire lab is run by ⁦@go_containerlab⁩ and the services are exposed by ⁦@mysocketio⁩ global anycast network

Do try it :)

[Roman Dodin @ntdvps]

🚨This is not a drill🚨
🥳This day has come and I'm delighted it has happened on my birthday.

🚀Nokia makes its Data Center NOS - SR Linux - available to everybody without any regwall, paywall, licwall or any other wall typical for a vendor

It is finally OUT! ->🧵

[Packet Pushers @packetpushers]

♻ Podcast : Heavy Networking 559: Nokia SR Linux – A Hyperscaler NOS Designed For Everyone (Sponsored) - https://t.co/lROb6vwfpz

[ntwr.kn @NtwrKn]

https://t.co/ENLS8AkRGB fragment: @mbushong shares with us his thoughts on the future of network silicon - can anyone dethrone @Broadcom? Are we about to see a major shift in the network silicon space?

https://t.co/ocHexuu1T5

[ntwr.kn @NtwrKn]

Don't have the time to sink into one of our longer podcasts? Welcome to 'https://t.co/ENLS8ACt5b fragments' - we'll post up some interesting tidbits from our full ep

Ever wonder why the https://t.co/ENLS8ACt5b world landed on YANG and not YAML?

https://t.co/DD1O5w9klS

[ntwr.kn @NtwrKn]

Inspired by https://t.co/XlEEw4thMj we discuss the merits of rebooting your devices after a config change! Thanks for the tag @ntdvps

Apple: https://t.co/eO3x5gYvVD

All other: https://t.co/tl4bKUGZtu

[ntwr.kn @NtwrKn]

Want a glimpse into the future of DC networking? Look no further, listen to what @mbushong from @JuniperNetworks shared with us in this great chat where we talked disaggregation, SONiC, the @Broadcom monopoly and more!
Apple: https://t.co/2OXc90dfdH
All: https://t.co/YlAH2OTDhG

[Bruce Wallis @bwallislol]

This was a lot of fun! Thanks for hanging out with us @robshakir - bring on gFIBI

[ntwr.kn @NtwrKn]

As promised here is part 2 of our chat with @robshakir! Topics of interest in this one: gRIBI vs PCEP (and the likes), collecting relevant info from the network (BGP-LS,gNMI), programming and abstracting the FIB(P4?)

Apple:https://t.co/7aMvqTXOGW

Other: https://t.co/1MqvMern7e

[ntwr.kn @NtwrKn]

Finally! We sat down with @robshakir and got 2 podcasts worth of amazing content! First up all things OpenConfig, history, it vs IETF models, tooling (with a shoutout to @ntdvps for his work on gnmi tools) and more!

Apple: https://t.co/0LR4NyRjqR

Other: https://t.co/rGZWiTs448

[Bruce Wallis @bwallislol]

Another day, another acquisition podcast! Tune in as we do our best to break down Junipers strategy in their recent acquisition of Apstra.

[ntwr.kn @NtwrKn]

Annnnnnd we're back! New podcast alert - EF: @JuniperNetworks acquires @ApstraInc! Sorry about the delay in releasing a podcast but we're back with some more acquisition news and its Juniper again making a move!

Apple: https://t.co/nfnKsywtve

All other:https://t.co/To7YxY1t4w

[Bruce Wallis @bwallislol]

@bulbul_oz @NtwrKn @BellLabs TIL

[Bruce Wallis @bwallislol]

Part one of many... Bring back SDN!

[ntwr.kn @NtwrKn]

What's this network automation stuff we keep hearing about? Join us as we begin to share our views on the very big world of network automation! First up - when and where are we using network automation!?

itunes: https://t.co/DbiV0oiVEb

All other: https://t.co/OeMW4VEdJd