The Packets, Life and everything
I’ve been using Home Assistant for a while now, and it’s time to explore automation with my Homelab equipment. Home Assistant offers integrations for a wide range of power outlets and allows for the control of PoE ports as well. Usually i power things with ZigBee Power Plugs or over PoE if possible. Raspberry PI …
After my recently doing some exploration of HPE/Aruba ZTP, I found myself truly captivated by the potential of FortiGates doing Zero Touch Provisioning. I've been contemplating a solution that involves deploying a bootstrap server for remote site installations. Whether dealing with clients or servers, this approach is a network boot environment, which can be seamlessly …
Recently, I've been tasked with automating the provisioning of certain network equipment. To achieve this, we've created the initial configuration using an Ansible playbook in conjunction with a Jinja2 template. This setup allows the DHCP server to instruct the switch to retrieve the configuration file via TFTP, and we've also made provisions for firmware updates …
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