The topics I explore are sometimes quite large, and cover a number of articles. I’ve picked out some topics where there are a number of related articles, and I add these on this page so you can follow along. I’ll be adding more in future to keep checking back for more information.
Border Gateway Protocol
I deep dive into the Border Gateway Protocol, how it works, how its configured and how you can use it within your networks. You’ll also find video versions of each article on my YouTube channel, updated as I make them!
- BGP Test Lab – Part 1 – Introduction and Basic Two Router Configuration
- BGP Test Lab – Part 2 – Internal BGP (iBGP) – Two Router Configuration
- BGP Test Lab – Part 3 – Internal BGP (iBGP) – Three Router Configuration (next-hop-self)
- BGP Test Lab – Part 4 – Internal BGP (iBGP) – Three Router Configuration (Interior Routing Protocol)
- BGP Test Lab – Part 5 – Internal BGP (iBGP) – Extra Routers, Two Exit Points
- BGP Test Lab – Part 6 – BGP Attributes, Path Selection: MED and Local Preference
- BGP Test Lab – Part 7 – Path Selection: AS Path Prepending
- BGP Test Lab – Part 8 – Path Selection: BGP Communities
- BGP Test Lab – Part 9 – Internal BGP (iBGP) – Three Router Configuration (Route Reflector, RR)
- BGP Test Lab – Part 10 – Internal BGP (iBGP) – Multiple Router Configuration (Confederations)
- BGP Test Lab – Part 11 – BGP Policies – BGP Filtering (Filter Routes)
- BGP Test Lab – Part 12 – BGP Route Redistribution
- BGP Test Lab – Part 13 – BGP States
- BGP Test Lab – Part 14 – BGP Timers
- BGP Test Lab – Part 15 – Autonomous System Numbers (ASN) Explained
- BGP Test Lab – Part 16 – BGP Peer Groups
- BGP Test Lab – Part 17 – BGP with Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
- BGP Test Lab – Part 18 – BGP with Equal Cost Multi-Pathing (ECMP)
- BGP Test Lab – Part 19 – Security Considerations (including BGP Neighbour Authentication)
- BGP Test Lab – Part 20 – Routing Information Base (RIB), BGP Debug Logging and other Things
- BGP Test Lab – Part 21 – BGP Looking Glass
- BGP Test Lab – Part 22 – IPv6 Considerations
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Coming soon!
IS-IS (Extreme Networks)
Coming soon!
Kubernetes
I deep dive into Kubernetes, its deployment, configuration and operation. We’ll be using Kubespray to deploy the Kubernetes cluster and use it to explore its components and how it works in practice.
- Kubernetes – Part 1 – Deployment using Kubespray
- Kubernetes – Part 2 – NodePort, ClusterIP and LoadBalancer (MetalLB)
- Kubernetes – Part 3 – Using Docker to Create Container Image and Deploy
- Kubernetes – Part 4 – Metrics and HPA
- Kubernetes – Part 5 – Network (Security) Policies
- Kubernetes – Part 6 – Namespaces
- Kubernetes – Part 7 – User Account Management, Service Account Management and RBAC
- Kubernetes – Part 8 – Health Checks
- Kubernetes – Part 9 – Metrics, HPA and Extended Metrics
- Kubernetes – Part 10 – Persistent Storage