Technical deep-dives on network automation, terminal workflows, SSH security, and AI-assisted network operations. Written by network engineers, for network engineers.
Subscribe via RSSThe LLM hype promises autonomous networks that self-heal. The reality is messier. What network engineers actually need isn't autonomous AI — it's an AI that thinks with you when things break.
Read more →Post-mortems love MOPs because they're supposed to prevent exactly the disasters that keep happening. The problem isn't the concept — it's that most MOP tooling makes them painful enough that teams skip them.
Read more →NetBox adoption is near-universal, but most teams use it as a CMDB with a pretty UI. The gap between having NetBox and actually using it as a source of truth is smaller than you think — if you close one specific gap.
Read more →Teams invest in Ansible, Python, NetBox, Windmill. But the terminal — where 80% of network engineering actually happens — is still PuTTY from 2019. Here's why that matters more than you think.
Read more →Individual SSH keys are manageable. Individual SSH keys across 200 engineers, 5000 devices, and 17 automation platforms are not. SSH certificates aren't a nice-to-have anymore — they're the only way to scale access control.
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