Strata Cloud Manager - Worth the Hype?
If you use Palo Alto firewalls, typically you manage them in one of two ways. You either log into each
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Automating Let's Encrypt Certificate Renewal for Palo Alto GlobalProtect
If you manage GlobalProtect VPN certificates on Palo Alto and use Let's Encrypt, at some point you will
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Testing Your Network with Netpicker
In my previous two posts, we covered what Pytest is, what it is traditionally used for, and how we can
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Minisforum MS-A2 Review for Network Labs/Homelab
In my previous blog post, I covered setting up network labs on a budget using used mini PCs, and I
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UGREEN NASync DXP4800 GT Review and Initial Setup
Last year I bought a UGreen NASync DXP2800 for my homelab, along with two Seagate IronWolf 8TB HDDs. This was
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How to Best Use Panorama Templates and Stacks?
I’ve been working with Palo Alto Firewalls and Panorama for a few years now, yet the best ways to
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Panorama Device Groups and Templates (with examples)
Overview
People who follow my blog may probably know that I'm a big fan of Cisco ASA firewalls
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Source Specific Multicast (SSM) VII
In this post, we will look at Source Specific Multicast, or SSM. This is a different approach to multicast that
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Rebuilding My Proxmox Cluster for the Version 9 Upgrade
I've been running Proxmox for maybe two years now, and I'd consider myself somewhat of a
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Automating Palo Alto HA Firewall Upgrades with Ansible
In this blog post, we will cover upgrading Palo Alto firewalls in HA using Ansible. This only covers upgrading minor
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Automatic SSL with Caddy, Cloudflare and Let's Encrypt
I run a lot of applications and services in my homelab, and they usually look something like http://10.10.
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Using NetBox as a Dynamic Inventory Source for Nornir
If you have used Nornir before, you already know that the most common way to define your inventory is through
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Pytest for Automated Network Testing (II)
In part one, we covered the basics of pytest and wrote our first network tests. We tested BGP and OSPF
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Simple Wireguard VPN Setup with wg-easy
WireGuard is a modern VPN protocol that is fast, lightweight, and much simpler to set up compared to other options
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I Vibe-Coded My CV Into a CLI
UPDATE - Since publishing this post, I have also added a Palo Alto style CV to the site. I will update
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Pytest for Automated Network Testing (I)
Pytest is a Python testing framework. It is primarily used by developers to test their code and make sure it
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Multicast PIM Bootstrap Router (BSR) (VI)
We are at the tail end of our multicast series. So far, we have covered multicast basics, IGMP, PIM Dense
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UniFi UTR Initial Impressions, Setup and Review
Even though UniFi released the UTR (UniFi Travel Router) a while back, I've been researching it and trying
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