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Tony Bourke

@tonybourke.bsky.social

Skydiver, network automation (instructor for both).

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Automating Network Configuration with Ansible 101 - YouTube This free, live series on Ansible for network automation (specifically automating configuration) talks about several use cases for Ansible's use in network a...

I've created a multi-episode automation course for Ansible and networking: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I record the episodes live (all are posted).

The next episode is tomorrow at 10 AM Pacific, and I'm doing a Q&A. Ask your questions here and I'll answer them on the live episode!

21.04.2025 21:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Automating Network Configurations with Ansible 101 - Episode 2 - Ansible Components
YouTube video by Tony B Automating Network Configurations with Ansible 101 - Episode 2 - Ansible Components

Live class on Automating Network Configuration with Ansible Episode 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwUr...

15.04.2025 17:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Automating Network Configuration with Ansible 101 - Episode 1 - Introduction to Ansible YouTube video by Tony B

This Thursday, April 10th at 10 AM Pacific/1PM Eastern, I'm starting my free live class on Automating Network Configurations with Anible. It will be streamed live on Youtube.
www.youtube.com/live/il5IjFe...

08.04.2025 18:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sad to hear about Val Kilmer. Real Genius was a formative movie for me.

03.04.2025 02:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Test Driven Deployment by The Network Automation Journey In the software development world, they have a concept called "test driven development", whereby code is tested (unit tests, integration tests) before committing to the main branch and before deployme...

My latest Podcast episode: Test Driven Deployment (a take on the software development world's Test Drive Development).

creators.spotify.com/pod/show/net...

07.02.2025 02:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There's a small but vocal community of "automation luddites", for lack of a better term.

23.01.2025 21:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Story I heard about Dr Radia Pearlman, creator of the spanning tree protocol: she had an idea to change forwarding so STP wasn’t needed, and she went to the IEEE. They said no, so she went to the IETF, and they said yes and that became TRILL. The IEEE realized it was a good idea and did SPB.

23.01.2025 14:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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