Earlier this month, I was able to hit the publish button on a new book – Open Source Network Management. The book dives into getting started with several open source network management tools. It is meant as a guide to help further your experience with using and installing open source tools, all on a single VM/host. The size of the host is meant to have minimal capital investment, in the way of a single NUC or a minimal VM deployed on a hypervisor in your environment.
The book is published on LeanPub, which is a publish early, publish often marketplace. The book is digital only, with PDF, ePub, and mobi formats available. Currently, the book is indicating 80% completeness, with most of the technical content in place already! There are mainly soft edits in this early version.
Several open source projects are covered in the book, starting out with installing Docker Community Edition (CE), then adding Docker Compose files to handle installation of the tools. After the Docker Compose is up, there is also a basic configuration to get up and running, actually using the project, including:
With these components in place, a modern network management stack can be assembled with minimal investment.
These lightweight projects have the capability to run on a single host in order get up and running. Yet, even though these projects are lightweight, they all are able to scale out to meet the needs of Enterprise and Large Enterprise.
Upcoming additions to the book include installing a Git application such as Gitea, adding in more Nautobot apps such as the Golden Configuration app (which requires a Git repo for configuration backup) and Welcome Wizard.
As time allows, more additions and tools will be added, such as those for looking at alternative metrics gathering solutions and other configuration backup solutions.
As part of the NTC desire to give back to the community, there is an opportunity to get your own copy of the book for free. To do so, join the Network to Code mailing list and select the Get my free copy! button.
There will be a limited quantity available.
There may be some delay in the code being sent to you.
Hopefully, the content in the book is helpful! I enjoyed putting it together!
-Josh
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