The NetBox podcast

Our two podcasts, NetBox Automation Heroes and NetBox Heroes shine light on individuals in the NetBox and NetDev community.

Network Automation Heroes - Reducing Monitoring Overhead with NetBox and Kentik
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Network Automation Heroes - Reducing Monitoring Overhead with NetBox and Kentik

In episode 6 of the Network Automation Heroes, Mark Coleman and Steve Meuse, Solutions Architect at Kentik, discuss how manually configuring monitoring leads to unnecessary overhead and costly mistakes, and how after embarking on their network automation journeys with NetBox teams are well advised to take a look at automating their monitoring configurations first, to make sure they are building on solid foundations.

Network Automation Heroes - Escaping the Automation Silo with torero
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Network Automation Heroes - Escaping the Automation Silo with torero

In episode 5 of the Network Automation Heroes, Mark Coleman and Wyatt Sullivan talk about how organizations adopting network automation need to be aware of “false summits”, or declaring victory too soon, and how extending our “definition of done” to making sure our colleagues can use our automation is a great step in the right direction.

Network Automation Heroes - Managing Juniper Mist with NetBox Cloud
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Network Automation Heroes - Managing Juniper Mist with NetBox Cloud

In this episode, Mark Coleman is joined by Bryan Ward from Dartmouth College. They discuss how Dartmouth was a very early adopter of both NetBox and Juniper Mist and how their diligent work has led to advanced network automation workflows, and meaningful impact on both the NetBox Cloud and Juniper Mist roadmaps.

NetBox Heroes Episode 11: Nutanix - Eric Pearce, Danko Trajkovic, and Milan Nikolic
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NetBox Heroes Episode 11: Nutanix - Eric Pearce, Danko Trajkovic, and Milan Nikolic

In our latest episode, Kris Beevers is joined by the team from Nutanix, as they discuss their journey implementing NetBox, extending NetBox through plugins, and how NetBox serves a role beyond traditional network management.

NetBox Automation Heroes - Kriten.io - Scaling Network Automation without the Trouble
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NetBox Automation Heroes - Kriten.io - Scaling Network Automation without the Trouble

In Episode 3 of the NetBox Automation Heroes, we discuss how Kriten.io helps network automation teams overcome “it works on my machine” syndrome, allowing network engineers to more easily share their creations across their organizations, without running afoul of duplication issues and security concerns.

NetBox Automation Heroes: Proactive and Reactive configuration assurance with NetBox and Netpicker
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NetBox Automation Heroes: Proactive and Reactive configuration assurance with NetBox and Netpicker

In Episode 2 of the NetBox Automation Heroes, Mark Coleman and Otto Coster discuss how the combination of NetBox and Netpicker can help networking teams to collaborate better with their security colleagues, and how NetBox and Netpicker help teams to stay in control of their networks with automated assurance and compliance testing.

NetBox Automation Heroes: Taking the Luck Out of Design & Operations with NetBox, ContainerLab & NRX
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NetBox Automation Heroes: Taking the Luck Out of Design & Operations with NetBox, ContainerLab & NRX

In Episode 1 of the NetBox Automation Heroes, Mark Coleman and Roman Dodin and Alex Bortok, discuss how the combination of NetBox, nrx, graphite & ContainerLab can help teams overcome common problems they run into when navigating their network automation journeys.

NetBox Heroes Episode 10: Wikimedia Foundation Part 2 - Riccardo Coccioli
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NetBox Heroes Episode 10: Wikimedia Foundation Part 2 - Riccardo Coccioli

In part 2 of this two part series, Kris Beevers discusses Wikimedia’s network automation strategy and Riccardo’s recommendations for those beginning their network automation journey.

NetBox Heroes Episode 9: Wikimedia Foundation Part 1 - Cathal Mooney and Arzhel Younsi
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NetBox Heroes Episode 9: Wikimedia Foundation Part 1 - Cathal Mooney and Arzhel Younsi

In part 1 of this two part series, Kris Beevers sits down with Cathal and Arzhel of Wikimedia to learn about their use cases for NetBox and the behind the scenes infrastructure that enables the foundation’s important work.

NetBox Heroes Episode 8: Garrett Nowak of 11:11 Sytems
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NetBox Heroes Episode 8: Garrett Nowak of 11:11 Sytems

In this episode of NetBox Heroes, Host Kris Beevers discusses the importance of mentorship, including team culture as a part of onboarding, and making mistakes, with Garret Nowak, senior director of network architecture at 11:11 Systems.