AWS AWS Direct Connect Technical Deep Dive (IX) In the previous posts, we looked at how to use a site‑to‑site VPN to connect your on‑premises Suresh Vina Aug 6, 2025 20 min read
Homelab Immich Setup with Docker & External Library (NFS) Recently, I started self-hosting most of the apps I use, like Memos for note-taking and Paperless-NGX for document management. The Suresh Vina Jul 19, 2025 5 min read
Infrahub Integration Testing in Infrahub - Validate Your Automation in Real Environments Testing individual components is a good start, but what happens when you need to validate how everything works together? In Suresh Vina Jul 15, 2025 10 min read
AWS AWS Transit Gateway Peering Attachments (VIII) Hi all, welcome back to the AWS networking series. This is actually part 3 of just Transit Gateway. I know Suresh Vina Jul 11, 2025 6 min read
AWS AWS Transit Gateway VPN Attachment and Resource Access Manager (VII) In the previous post, we covered the basics of Transit Gateway, what it is, what problem it solves, and we Suresh Vina Jul 9, 2025 9 min read
AWS AWS Transit Gateway Introduction (VI) In the previous post, we covered VPC Peering, which is a quick and easy way to create a connection between Suresh Vina Jul 6, 2025 12 min read
AWS AWS VPC Peering (V) Welcome back to the AWS Networking series. So far, we have covered a wide range of foundational topics. We started Suresh Vina Jul 5, 2025 7 min read
AWS AWS Site-to-Site VPN (IV) So far in the AWS Networking series, we have covered VPCs, subnets, route tables, Internet Gateways, NAT Gateways, EC2 instances, Suresh Vina Jul 3, 2025 15 min read
Palo Alto Palo Alto Upgrade from 10.2 to 11.2 (PA-440) I have PA-440 in my home lab and was happily running PAN-OS 10.2.10-h9. But with the recent announcement Suresh Vina Jul 3, 2025 2 min read
Network Free Network Configuration Backup with Netpicker Netpicker is a tool that brings together config backups, security/compliance checks, and automation in one place. Netpicker supports 130+ Suresh Vina Jul 3, 2025 9 min read
Palo Alto Site-to-site VPN between AWS and Palo Alto (Static & BGP) In this blog post, we'll look at how to create a site-to-site VPN between AWS and a Palo Suresh Vina Jul 2, 2025 15 min read
AWS AWS Security Groups, NACL and ENI (III) This is the third blog post in the AWS Networking series. If you have been following along, you can continue Suresh Vina Jun 23, 2025 9 min read
AWS AWS NAT Gateway and Private/Public Subnets (II) When working with AWS networking, you will often hear the terms 'public subnet' and 'private subnet' Suresh Vina Jun 23, 2025 13 min read
AWS AWS Networking Fundamentals (I) In my opinion, learning cloud networking is easier compared to traditional networking. You’ll see why as we go through Suresh Vina Jun 21, 2025 25 min read
Palo Alto Palo Alto Create Bulk Address Objects using Pan-OS Python SDK In this blog post, we'll see how to configure bulk Address-Objects at once and then add them to Suresh Vina Jun 19, 2025 5 min read
Infrahub Getting Started with the Pytest Plugin for Infrahub We all write code, but how do we know the changes we make in the future won’t break something Suresh Vina Jun 9, 2025 12 min read
Homelab UGreen NASync DXP2800 Review and First Impressions TL;DR - For anyone who doesn’t want to go through the full post, here’s the short version. Suresh Vina Jun 8, 2025 7 min read
Palo Alto 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 Suresh Vina Jun 7, 2025 7 min read