One Little Thing Can Break All Your Automation
I’ve been doing some work automating A10 Networks load balancers recently, and while testing I discovered a bug which broke my scripts. As hard as I try to code my scripts to cope with both […]
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Handling A10 PCAP Files Using Automator in MacOS
I’m not a big user of Apple’s Automator tool, but sometimes it’s very useful. For example, A10 Networks load balancers make it pretty easy for administrators to capture packets without having to remember the syntax […]
Operational Annoyances: SSL Certificates and Keys
You’re asked to update the SSL certificate for movingpackets.net on a load balancer. The requestor (me, in this case) gives you the certificate file. I don’t need to give you the intermediate certificate bundle because […]
Operational Annoyances: SSL Intermediate Certificates
You’re asked to update the SSL certificate for movingpackets.net on a load balancer. The requestor (me, I suppose) gives you the certificate, the private key and passphrase, and the intermediate bundle file provided by the […]
Multi-datacenter Firewall Automation – Part 2
In my last post on firewall automation, I described the logical model I decided to use in order that I might be able to compute the path between endpoints using the Dijkstra shortest path algorithm. […]
Multi-datacenter Firewall Policy Automation
Back in that world where I reinvent the commercially available wheel, I’ve been wondering for a while about how to achieve firewall policy automation in a multi-datacenter environment. This week I started tinkering with possible ways to […]