August 29, 2020

Prometheus node_exporter on Ubiquiti EdgeOS Router configured via ansible

My home router is a Ubiquiti EdgeMAX router running EdgeOS 2.0.6. I chose it because wanted a router that could run sflow for testing purposes. I recently came across someone successfully installing Prometheus node_exporter on EdgeOS, so I gave it a try. Since I’d already ansible-automated the install of node_exporter on a switch running Cumulus Linux, I wrote a new playbook with only minor modifications for EdgeOS and it worked perfectly.

August 28, 2020

Hugo, Gitlab and Pipelines

I’ve decided to try and document the useful workflows and code I’ll generate during my upcoming new job. Here’s how I went about automating the creation of these blog pages and publishing of this blog to a directory on my web server. I’ll first focus on the process and code, then at the bottom of this page will be descriptions about why I’ve chosen these tools and specific workflow. Tools Hugo: A open-source static site generator Ananke: The Hugo theme used for the blog GitLab: SCM (Source Code Management) tool/site including CI pipelines VS Code: My preferred code editing platform GitKraken: A GUI for git because I’m lazy sometimes Workflow Init a repo It’s easiest to setup a git repository first, then proceed with all the remaining steps by creating the files in the repo directory.

August 27, 2020

A new hope

Next week I start a new journey. Network automation is not about which tool you use to push configs. It’s about enabling organisational goals. I’ve been living in $vendor-land for many years and talking about automation and continuous integration topics as they apply for network engineering, but now it’s time to put it in to practice. I’m jumping down the rabbit hole, and will be responsible for large production environments. Wish me luck.