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Open vSwitch 201 & 301

5/23/2014

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[Special and huge thanks to Scott Lowe for answering an endless amount of questions I had while writing this post and testing with NSX/OVS over the last few days. Thanks to Deepesh as well who I bounced OVS questions off of when I needed to give Scott a break. ]

In Open vSwitch 101, I described the three main components that make up Open vSwitch (OVS) from an architectural standpoint, namely ovs-vswitchd, ovsdb-server, and the fast path kernel module.  If you start to work with OVS, the first thing you realize is that it takes quite a bit more knowledge to really understand it.  This post will focus on some design principles and options when running OVS on a hypervisor like KVM in conjunction with a network virtualization solution.

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DEMO: Using Ansible for Network Automation

5/18/2014

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There is so much discussion on if network engineers need to be programmers that I was almost getting pissed off last week.  It was an odd and funny feeling.  Anyway, I've written in the past here and here about the use of Ansible for networking.  In this post and video, the goal is to show why network engineers don’t need to be "hardcore programmers."

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