NA007 - Deep Dive on Pulumi with Scott Lowe Scott Lowe joins to explore Pulumi as an infrastructure-as-code tool, the IaC competitive landscape, and why network automation is fundamentally harde...

My Network Automagic podcast is live! Check it out: networkautomagic.net/podcast/na007/

Cake slices weighing less than 300 grams are considered cookies

Last Thursday, the second CHNUG (Swiss Network User Group) meetup was a wrap!
🚀 Somehow, I ended up taking the lead on the low-cost recording setup. 🎙️

📅 Save the date: CHNUG #3 is happening on May 28th, 2026, at Nokia Zurich.

Check out the recordings and slides here: chnug.ch/chnug002/

🎸 The Halo Effect 🎸
🎸 Heaven Shall Burn 🎸

I am not convinced I have this skill 😉

Finally started redesigning/updating my personal webpage: ubaumann.ch

My smallest hotel room so far.

DCD was a pleasant experience and unfolded a new world of "how to build your own datacenter" from a physical location perspective. Saw some interesting cooling systems.

I will never use this knowledge. 🤣

API first for first-semester students in the Network Foundation module commencing next month.

Migrate from poetry to uv by ubaumann · Pull Request #43 · InfrastructureAsCode-ch/nettowel

It's a strange feeling if the CI/CD runs without any failures when migrating a Python project from Poetry to UV. Not sure it can really be that smooth. 🤔

github.com/Infrastructu...

Two Pizza Team Tuesdays We're only paying on Two-for-Tuesday deal days

Network Slicing + Two Pizza Teams = Double-stuffed RJ45 Ports

#networking:

🌐 AWS NAT Gateway interactive blog
🗺️ D2 to visualise networks
🎓 k8s for Network Engineers
🤔 Is Cisco NDFC really ACI?
🐍 BGP on ceEOS with Python
🤘 fck-nat for AWS VPCs
💀 Knowledge work is dying

reloadin.net/p/two-pizza-...

Creating Network Topologies with D2 - Infrastructure as Code This blog post explores how to create network topologies using D2, a modern and powerful diagramming tool. It highlights key features such as grouping, labeling, interactivity, and layout options to h...

I finally published a new blog post on creating network topologies using the D2 diagramming language!

If you're familiar with GraphViz or Mermaid, it's worth exploring what D2 has to offer, including modern syntax, icons, interactivity, and more.
infrastructureascode.ch/d2-network-t...

The moment you execute a command and expect it to fail, but it just works. And now, you need to verify if it worked.

NA004 - Autocon3 hallway track The Autocon3 3 part hallway track

Unofficial hallway track from #AutoCon3

networkautomagic.net/podcast/na004/

Is EDA consuming so many resources? 😉

Today, drinking coffee and Cisco are paying

GitHub - infrahub-operator/vidra: A continuous delivery Kubernetes operator for Infrahub A continuous delivery Kubernetes operator for Infrahub - infrahub-operator/vidra

What a cool project. GitOps for Infrahub Artefacts. The operator allows deploying any CRD on a k8s cluster, obeying all 4 OpenGitOps principles.
github.com/infrahub-ope...

I am sure it would be nice and fresh.

Next time, just wear the kilt for your travel. 😉

Nice. I was never a keynote speaker 😀
Well deserved 👏

Is XML a data format and a schema? I would say XML is the data format, and XSD is the schema. 🤔

#autocon3 is starting strong with 2 days of workshops
@infrastructureascode.ch and @steinzi.bsky.social running the show to teach everyone how to use NUTS and Pytest

GitHub - ubaumann/mkdocs-mcp: MkDocs Plugin to serve MCP MkDocs Plugin to serve MCP. Contribute to ubaumann/mkdocs-mcp development by creating an account on GitHub.

Convert your MkDocs repo into a MCP server providing the markdown files as resources
github.com/ubaumann/mkd...

Have you ever tried building a Terraform provider for a dynamic schema? @marcom4rtinez.bsky.social did!

Marco created a strategy to generate tailored Terraform providers for dynamic Infrahub schemas, detailing the build and usage process in two blog posts.

infrastructureascode.ch/author/mmart...

What does F5 do? 🤪

Is it worth it to recertify?

It will be a great tool. I am looking forward to using it in class

Ever wanted to provide containerlab as a service to your team? Two students are doing great work with antimony, providing a modern frontend and backend to integrate with containerlab and clabernetes.

NA003 - NUTS with Marco Martinez NUTS the Network Unified Test System with Marco Martinez and Urs

A new podcast was just published on Network Automagic. Steinz, Marco and I are discussing the Network Unit Testing System (NUTS).
networkautomagic.net/podcast/na003/

The feeling when the lab finally works after you realise you forgot the "vxlan encapsulation ipv6" command.