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‎docker-compose.yml

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command: hugo server --bind 0.0.0.0 --disableFastRender --buildDrafts

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title = "Andrew Jones CV"
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date = "2025-05-17"
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lastmod = "2025-06-03"
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description = "Andrew Jones (commitconfirmed) CV"
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| 10+ Years | `OSPF, iBGP, eBGP, MP-BGP, QinQ, VLANs, QoS, MPLS, RSVP, VPLS, L2Circuit, VRFs` |
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| 5-10 Years | `Firewalls, VPN, IPSec, Security Policy, IDS, IPv6, Multicast, Load Balancing, NAT` |
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| 3-5 Years | `IS-IS, Segment Routing, EVPN, VXLAN, RADIUS, TACACS+, VoIP, SIP` |
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| 0-2 Years | `MACSec, Wireless (802.11), SD-WAN, 802.1X, RPKI` |
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| 1-2 Years | `MACSec, Wireless (802.11), SD-WAN, 802.1X, RPKI` |
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### Network Design
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| 10+ Years | `Service Provider Core, Service Provider Access, Datacenter (Physical), Gateway (POP)` |
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| 5-10 Years | `Peering, Route Servers, IXP, IP Transit, Datacenter (Core+Access), Labs & POCs` |
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| 3-5 Years | `Enterprise Branch, Enterprise Core, Datacenter (Leaf+Spine)` |
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| 0-2 Years | `Campus Wireless, DWDM, ILA, Cloud (VPC), Cloud (DX)` |
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| 1-2 Years | `Campus Wireless, DWDM, ILA, Cloud (VPC), Cloud (DX)` |
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| Duration | Skill(s) |
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| 5-10 Years | `SNMP, Netflow, CLI` |
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| 3-5 Years | `Ansible, Netbox, Splunk, TR-069` |
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| 0-2 Years | `Nornir, Kubernetes, Prometheus, GNMI, ZTP, Containerlab, Batfish, Grafana, Terraform` |
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| 1-2 Years | `Nornir, Kubernetes, Prometheus, GNMI, ZTP, Containerlab, Batfish, Grafana, Terraform` |
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| 3-5 Years | `Python, Shell, REST API, XML, JSON, YAML, HTML, CSS, SQL` |
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| 10+ Years | `Linux (Ubuntu), Cisco IOS, Juniper JUNOS, A10 AXOS` |
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| 5-10 Years | `VMWare, Arista EOS` |
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| 3-5 Years | `Docker, Linux (RedHat), Cisco IOS-XR` |
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| 1-2 Years | `cRPD, cEOS, BIRD, FRR, GoBGP` |
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‎site/content/posts/network-diagram-guide/01-intro/index.md

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title = "Network Diagram Guide - Intro"
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date = "2025-06-02"
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description = "A guide to drawing better Network Diagrams"
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tags = [
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"network engineering",
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"network diagrams",
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"drawio",
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"visio",
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"excalidraw",
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## Introduction
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In this series, I will go through some personal experiences, tools and recommendations when drawing Network Diagrams.
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This article deals with the tools I have used to document, plan & draw diagrams. I will also go over where each tool shines and tips & tricks to make your life easier. Again, this is based on personal experience since there are a lot of free and paid tools out there.
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## Excel
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Excel as a Network Diagram tool? I have surprisingly seen topology diagrams in excel before but generally it is used to draw up Elevation/Rack diagrams and data center floor plans.
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Let's start with the bane of every Network Engineers existence, Excel. We have all had to deal with an IP address spreadsheet sometime in our lives.
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It is very easy to spin up a basic network source of truth these days.
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Where Excel is does shine is its speed
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## Visio
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## draw.io
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## Excalidraw
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## other
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The ready to go example lab for this article is the [basic-nornir](https://github.com/commitconfirmed/npa-showcases/tree/main/examples/basic-nornir) topology. Navigate into this directory and execute `manage.sh build` & `manage.sh run`
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**Note:** If this is your first time here, see the [NPA Showcases](/npa-showcases) documentation for initial installation steps on your local machine or a GitHub codespace
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## Topology
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| `/app/config.yml` | Our basic Nornir config file |
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| `/app/inventory/defaults.yml` | Default inventory variables, applies to all hosts |
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| `/app/inventory/groups.yml` | Group inventory variables, applies to hosts in this group |
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| `/app/inventory/hosts.yml` | Host inventory variables, specific to the host |
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| `/app/tasks/task-inventory.py` | Example task showing inventory management |
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| `/app/tasks/task-napalm.py` | Example task to interact with devices using NAPALM plugin |
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| `/app/tasks/task-netmiko.py` | Example task to interact with devices using NETMIKO plugin |
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| `/app/tasks/task-scrapli.py` | Example task to interact with devices using SCRAPLI plugin |
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| `/app/templates/ceos1.j2` | Jinja2 template for our cEOS device |
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| `/app/templates/crpd1.j2` | Jinja2 template for our cRPD device |

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description = "A guide to drawing better Network Diagrams"
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| `/app/inventory/groups.yml` | Group inventory variables, applies to hosts in this group |
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| `/app/tasks/task-napalm.py` | Example task to interact with devices using NAPALM plugin |
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| `/app/tasks/task-netmiko.py` | Example task to interact with devices using NETMIKO plugin |
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| `/app/tasks/task-scrapli.py` | Example task to interact with devices using SCRAPLI plugin |
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| `/app/templates/ceos1.j2` | Jinja2 template for our cEOS device |
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| `/app/templates/crpd1.j2` | Jinja2 template for our cRPD device |

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