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In high multi-tenant environments such as Service Providers, Hosting Providers, or just large enterprises, having to deal with multiple internal customers, efficient utilization of infrastructure is top of mind for network operations teams. While ensuring isolation and security among different...
With network flow monitoring, you can troubleshoot application issues in a DC fabric with distributed, cloud-native, virtualized, and containerized workloads. Introduction In modern networks, network flow monitoring is essential for network administrators. Network flow monitoring provides...
It is often stated that most network outages occur as a result of changes having been made to the system. There have been many notable examples of this, and they have all affected us. Precise management of network changes is, in fact, one of the key benefits of network automation solutions. Data...
Juniper Apstra supports Network Operating System (NOS) Upgrades for managed switches, allowing you to upgrade devices directly from the Apstra Server within a consistent workflow process. This document is based on original work by Josh Saul Introduction Apstra supports NOS...
How Apstra clustering works with respect to Off-box agents and Probe processing units Introduction The Juniper Apstra standard implementation model is based on one virtual machine, a deployment model sufficient for most use cases. However, in some situations driven either by scale or by...
Apstra supports Drain Mode for managed switches, allowing the operator to gracefully drain traffic from devices without simply shutting down the BGP neighbor relationships. This article is derived from original documentation by Josh Saul Introduction This is implemented through...
A description of the different configurations that can be rendered based on the state of the devices in Apstra. This article is derived from original work created by Josh Saul. Introduction Apstra creates configurations for devices that are under its...
Using Tags, Property Sets, and Jinja to simplify Apstra Freeform Day-2 Configuration. Introduction Alongside the Juniper Apstra DC reference architecture built on L2 + L3 VXLAN EVPN, 3 and 5-stage Clos or...
How vJunos-switch is deployed as a VM, packaged within a container, on a bare metal server using the open source network emulation tool Containerlab. We’ll start with instructions on how to install Containerlab on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, along with other dependencies that are needed to create the...
From the basic constructs Freeform uses – Tags, Device Contexts, Property Sets, and Config Templates – to creating a simple Freeform blueprint, to a number of advanced case studies. Introduction Juniper Apstra is a powerful automation and operations solution that manages the entire data...