Year: 2022
SMS HCIaaS With Nutanix
By: Jeremy Savoy, Director, ITaaS Solutions & Strategy, SMS The way we consume and manage IT resources is changing. The traditional CAPEX-heavy procurement models for on-premise infrastructure are no longer the only options for organizations. IT infrastructure-as-a-service (ITaaS) models, such as hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) as a service (HCIaaS), are becoming more popular as businesses look for ways to reduce costs…
Read MoreEVPN+IRB over MPLS with JUNOS and IOS-XR
By: Zachary Cayou, Network Engineer, SMS Introduction I was given a project to implement EVPN+IRB over MPLS in our network, with the bonus to make it interoperable between JUNOS and IOS-XR routers. At the time, the depths of Google revealed precisely zero examples, guides, or blog posts of anyone attempting to do this. In addition, vendor documentation on the subject…
Read MoreSetup of Ansible on Eve-NG
By: George Djaboury, Senior Network Engineer, SMS Introduction The purpose of this post is to perform a basic setup of Ansible on Eve-NG. If you are a network engineer who has never been exposed to Ansible before, then this is perfect for you. By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to successfully push configurations to network devices…
Read MoreDeploying Dokuwiki on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Part 2
By: Rob Stewart, Cloud Architect, SMS Improving the Dokuwiki Deployment In part 1 of this series, we documented a very basic "click-ops" deployment of an ECS Task running the Bitnami Dokuwiki container. Please go back and read that post if you haven't already before you read this one. In this post, we are going to address some of the deficiencies…
Read MoreCisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Recertification
By Ryan DeBerry, Cloud Solutions Architect, SMS To keep my Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) in an active state, I must recertify every 3 years. I haven't touched anything related to a helping me recertify the CCIE in a year and half…or so I thought. In September of 2020, after 15+ years as a Network Engineer, I transitioned to a…
Read MoreDeploying Your First Container on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
by: Rob Stewart, Cloud Architect, SMS The Case for Amazon Elastic Container Service According to Corey Quinn, there are at least 17 Ways to Run Containers on AWS. However, if you are familiar with all the hype concerning containers in general and Kubernetes in particular, then you might conclude that there is no reason to even consider any of…
Read MoreNetwork Engineer to Cloud Engineer
by: Ryan DeBerry, Cloud Solutions Architect, SMS Introduction This is an attempt to give other Network Engineers a brain dump of the things you should learn if you want to make the transition from networking to cloud. I decided to do this because an opportunity was presented to me at my company, SMS. I was hesitant as I was…
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