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From Counters to Conversations: NetFlow, sFlow, OpenTelemetry, and SuzieQ
How NetFlow, sFlow, and OpenTelemetry help connect network traffic to application behavior.
Oct 1
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Byrn Baker
From Network Devices to Grafana: Building the Lab’s SNMP Pipeline
Introducing ArgoCD and GitOps
Oct 1
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Byrn Baker
1
September 2026
Netclaw on Omarchy
Connecting an AI Agent to My Network Lab
Sep 27
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Byrn Baker
1
5:06
Who Actually Runs Your Container?
Kubernetes from First Principles: How a Workload Becomes a Pod
Sep 20
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Byrn Baker
1
7:45
The Interfaces Were Up. The Packets Had Stopped.
Sometimes you have to stop and really dig into a problem to understand the platform.
Sep 15
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Byrn Baker
1
Nine nodes. Zero host files
Part 5 left a single Ubuntu VM on VLAN 100 with an IP, a bond, and a route to the internet. That was the proof the fabric had an exit. This post turns…
Sep 10
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Byrn Baker
1
The Servers VRF Needed a Way Out. That Meant a Border Leaf.
One leaf per site, one NAT edge, and a /32 that saved the return path
Sep 3
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Byrn Baker
1
August 2026
15 Arista Switches. Intra-DC EVPN Is Up
I hit Start All. Fifteen vEOS nodes. Half came up empty.
Aug 27
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Byrn Baker
2
13 Cisco Routers. Zero Manual Configuration
How I used Nautobot Golden Config to deploy and verify a complete MPLS VPN control plane.
Aug 20
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Byrn Baker
2
Catch Broken Network Configs Before They Reach a Router
TLDR: Part 3 deploys generated intent to 13 Cisco IOS-XE routers on Thursday.
Aug 19
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Byrn Baker
1
What I'm Building Here (Start Here)
28 devices, one source of truth, zero manual config, and an AI agent that diagnoses outages before I wake up.
Aug 14
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Byrn Baker
7
Building an AI-Monitored NOC from Scratch
Part 2: Setting up the Nautobot Golden Config App
Aug 14
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Byrn Baker
3
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