[afnog] Hackathon

[Andrew Alston]

Honestly speaking the software out of Cisco and juniper for network automation so far that I have seen all sucks, badly, and I did a fair amount of work on this (and spent a lot of money at the same time)

Cisco prime is a mess, Cariden mate was decent till a lot of multi vendor support disappeared after Cisco bought it, Juniper bought another tool recently that I worked with a fair bit that was half decent, but the hundreds of thousand of dollars price tag it wasn't really justifiable.

If we wanna talk automation it's probably best to define the feature set we want and look at either open source or development, because seriously the price tag and the functionality of the main stream commercial stuff just isn't worth it.

Just my thoughts

Andrew




On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 5:28 PM +0300, "Noah" <noah at neo.co.tz<mailto:noah at neo.co.tz>> wrote:


On 13 Jun 2016 11:01, "Loganaden Velvindron" <loganaden at gmail.com<mailto:loganaden at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>

Hi Logan

> After AIS in Botswana, I was wondering if there might be some interest
> to organize a Hackathon for the next meeting in Mauritius.
>
> In order for it to work, we would need
>
> 1) A room with Internet and stable electricity (3 days, non-stop, 10
> hours of intense coding)
> 2) Low noise level, and restricted room access so that participants can focus.
> 3) People familiar with coding in languages such as Python/Perl and C,
> and who are willing to spare some time ahead of the hackathon to brush
> up their skills, so that they can hit the hackathon with some kind of
> code. In my experience organizing various hackathons in Mauritius,
> it's better to have an idea ahead of time, and already having some
> code written before coming so that you can quickly iron out the bugs,
> and improve code steadily.
>
> TOPIC: DNS, DNSSEC, BGP, SMTPS, TLS, <insert your idea here>
>

Sounds like a plan. Very much interested. We can also add NETOPS for Network Engineers as i have seen Cisco and Juniper release some modules for automation in the recent past.

So a hackerthon in that too would be interesting.

> We would need at least 3 hackers as a start.
>
>
Noah
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