Blogs

Earlier this month, I wrote on Juniper J-Net about one of the coolest lessons in NRE Labs - focused on verifying network state and configuration with an awesome tool called JSNAPy: … One powerful use case is the ability to make assertions about the network - how it’s configured, what kind of state it’s in, and how it’s changed over a given period of time. Not just to know this information, but also be able to compare “what it really is” with “what it should be” in a predictable way.

I wrote a quick runthrough of some of the orientation sessions we’ll be running in the first weeks of NRE Labs: Every Friday, we’ll be conducting introductory training for new contributors. We’ll be covering things like how to build a dev environment, the release cadence, how to design new lessons and much more. If you’d like to attend, just send a direct message to @NRELabs or send a message on the #nre_labs Slack channel.

We launched NRE Labs almost a month ago now, and wrote about it over on the Juniper forums on launch day: … Providing a cheap, quick and easy solution, NRE Labs is free and easily accessible. It includes live terminal access to one’s own network devices and linux systems, right in the browser. Each learning lab topic is pieced apart into lessons that are, in turn, comprised of short lab steps that each take only a couple minutes.