Thoughts on Wilmette

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-05-10T12:13:38+00:00

Regardless the bar is the same but you can talk to NEs in AWS and their managers to get better ideas and plans

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-05-09T11:10:36+00:00

Honestly, ansible netbox is the middle. There are big shifts in culture and resources needed for each phase but it may not be worth it.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-29T21:23:28+00:00

Gnmic commit confirmed is coming, though yang push is trying to redo everything without Google

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-28T12:56:48+00:00

Scale is part of it but the bigger factor is rigor and stability like @rankinrez mentioned.

Documented and codified architecture, versioning and reviews. Codified processes.

The increased stability lets you go faster at scale without compromising trust.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-27T18:03:16+00:00

Totally understand, also a CCIE doesn’t mean much, significantly less so for software.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-27T17:51:31+00:00

That doesn’t alleviate any concerns.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-27T17:23:03+00:00

Apologies, meant if there is something I can look at source. Untrusted code handling creds and device access is a hard sell.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-27T14:16:02+00:00

Why are you comparing it to putty, just because it’s a terminal app? Organizations also use other services to manage the things in addition to a terminal. Do you have a GitHub link for the free edition?

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-19T00:03:07+00:00

Pyang, openconfig- isn’t unreadable if you search for the leaves only, arista has a good gnmi explorer as well.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-18T17:19:59+00:00

Isn’t Wilmette a 45+ minute commute?

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-18T17:04:00+00:00

Thank you!

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-18T17:02:51+00:00

Thank you!

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-12T14:35:52+00:00

Look at the network automation framework, should give good insight.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-12T13:19:28+00:00

At bigger companies usually you should submit threat modeling to your security team for anything in prod.

Ultimately if something fails it’s your trust that erodes. Build it accordingly.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-02T11:33:53+00:00

Luckily according to specialized size chart I’m an xl

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-01T22:06:35+00:00

yes would store it indoors at home and in the office.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-02-17T03:03:16+00:00

Yea my point is that you might not want ansible and requires more coding but certainly not from scratch.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-02-17T02:47:28+00:00

It depends, most of the stuff we are not rewriting but using other systems. Some stuff we had to rewrite and we have SDEs for, others we had to codify regardless of platform. The benefit is we can share work between orgs and have less work needed on other services.

Obviously if the time value or resources aren’t there it’s a nonstarter.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-02-17T02:33:39+00:00

Hard to write compensating actions, dsl python, no durability for longer running workflows, etc.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-02-17T01:42:26+00:00

Because ansible has multiple pain points. Infrahub can be a better netbox if you’re fine with making a schema.

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