Real World Networking - What is it like to be a REAL NETWORK ENGINEER

how's it going everybody real world networking what exactly does that mean it means networking that you're going to see in the real world i know i just turned around the words but that's literally what it means so what if we were to focus on networking concepts and implementations and stuff like that but we're not focusing on it for a certification it's been something i've been kicking around for a while and it's one of those things where the longer i spend in the it industry as both a engineer and as a instructor i have realized that there is a pretty much a gaping hole in the areas that i see a lot of people struggle in uh myself included that's you know it's easy to go learn how networking works right you go read a book watch some videos you know you get the theory down that type of stuff and then you go lab it up voila you can get an entire network up and running in a matter of a few hours congratulations you have lab things up in a completely 100 controlled environment that there's no potential for you to screw anything up and if you do guess what you put it back into play no outages no downtime you know the business isn't screaming at you that things are down everybody's happy that's not real networking right where you're lapping stuff up and you're learning how the concepts implement you know putting everything together you know one of the things that i found about realized about networking along or i should say network training a long time ago is that the network training that's out there is uh primarily always focused on helping the learner earn their certification whatever that might be ccna ccnp vcp mcse whatever there's nothing wrong with that per se right from a from an academia perspective right you're learning you know you're understanding how spanish tree works so you're understanding how eigrp works that type of stuff all those things are essential for you to be able to do your job right now most people wouldn't argue that what most people will argue is how it can be tailored to a learning environment that will benefit the learner right so as someone that has not only been an engineer for a long time i've architected networks i have implemented networks i have trouble shot them i have been the reason why they've gone down i have been the reason i have not always been the reason why they were brought back up i have been an instructor i've been a trainer or whatever whatever term you want to throw at it here on youtube on my own training websites ine ngt all that stuff right um all that is great right but the one thing that is common amongst all the different training that i've done is controlled environments so i thought to myself i was like you know i'm sitting i was actually i did a cut over a couple weeks ago with a client of mine and i had to drive to a colo uh co-location facility out in the madison wisconsin area so it was a two-hour drive out and we get out there and the customer has a pair of 3850 switches that are stacked so there's two of them and there's a stack a pair of stack cables connecting them together and this pair of switches is used for the core everything literally connects into this they had bought and deployed a pair of nexus 9300 93108 i think um i deal with nexus every day so i've gotten much more comfortable with the nexus platform um but they've got a pair of 93 9300s deployed and they were on really old code 703 i7 and so we right we tried another engineer had been lead on the project and i was brought in to assist okay it's no no big deal so i come in i've got a stronger route switch background so i get called to work on uh to come in and work on this um this project so i begin and the other engineer is removed from the project and reallocated elsewhere i end up taking over the project he didn't do anything wrong per se but i was put in place of this guy and i'm going through and working through the project and now i'm the one going to be doing leading the the cut over and the cutover is a pretty simple one right the configs were already on the boxes the uh we had done a code upgrade so i upgraded the operating systems on both 9ks and all that type of stuff over here on 935 code the 937a code i think is what we upload or upgraded to at the time it was the tax supported attack recommended supported release so we go through and uh get the upgrade done everything goes swimmingly with that customer's happy and then we go and they're like okay we're ready to do the migration again and so we had spent a lot of time trying to understand what exactly it was that what we were connecting into and we realized that we were connecting into a pair of 9300s that we're going to be connecting to a pair of 2200 or 2300 i don't know specifically which ones uh fabric extenders effects that was owned by a parent switch the nexus 5600 i think so and i'm like wait a minute as soon as i heard that's what the colo had deployed i me and a couple of other engineers are like wait a minute that doesn't sound right why are they connecting switches to fabric extenders and because what typically will happen is a switch any switch any port that's layer two or is a trunk link specifically a trunk we'll send bpds bridge protocol data units and the bpdu has switch specific information to try to help figure out spanning tree well if you send a bpu upstream to a fabric extender port that fabric center port has bpdu guard on and will immediately error disable the port so you actually have you can't config connect a trunk link to uh on the 9300 you couldn't configure the interface that connects to the fax as a trunk you have to configure it as an access port and you have to turn bpdu filter on which means it doesn't send bpdus so and that works so we did a code upgrade and we went back through and didn't change any of the major config there was a couple little tweaks here and there i go through and i um prior to the deployment which was supposed to happen at midnight this particular day and i end up we get on a call with the cola we get a call with the customer the colo engineers are trying to tell us that they don't need to do x y z and i won't go into any specifics beyond what i've already talked about but the colo engineers are trying to tell us that the way that it was wired up previous to this should work like okay fine and so now we're going through and um there are a number of uh of topics were discussed throughout this call and i am supposed to go and just move certain pieces of the migration over well we couldn't get certain things to work and they were so i made the call to just swing all the cables from the old to the new let's disconnect everything from the 3850 pair bring them over to the 9300 pair and we'll switch the routing and everybody will be happy right it'll so i took a little bit of a gamble and did we cut everything over it took a little while to do it there was a lot of parts that needed to get moved over but we got them moved over and uh eventually brought the network back online and we it was one of those type of situations where the network was hard down for about 45 minutes right the time that it takes to move all the cables so which is actually a pretty easy migration right it's when you're trying to migrate config and you're trying to change the routing as the network is operational that's a little more complicated because now you're trying to change the logical not the physical and when you're trying to change the logical and how the logical is going to control how the physical moves the data that's a little bit more involved sometimes and it can be detrimental if you don't do it correctly so we finally get everything up and running and we're doing our testing and everything's working like so we're okay go ahead and test to test the crap out of it so we were testing all of the primary things and we were testing failover and i was like okay i'm on vpn i was able to log in all the things that we had failed in the previous attempt were working in this attempt so so everything's looking really good right i'm i'm happy there was a couple little problems and we troubleshot them and i identify where they were relatively quickly and we went ahead and fixed them you know we were able to get everything working the way we wanted it to and all of the different services that were supposed to be uh running at this colo facility and reachable over vpn and things like that and through citrix gateways and stuff like that were 100 working nobody was calling back saying hey there's a problem everything was good so i'm like okay this is good so we're two hour two and a half hours into the change window and at this point in time it's like it's a little after two o'clock in the morning i'm starting to get a little tired and because i've been up since 10 o'clock the the morning before right so i had worked all day plus drove and then you know i still have a two hour drive back home and i didn't get a lot of sleep the night before because of other things and i won't go into specifics but so that's the stuff right the change window the migration those are the things that you know the outage windows right those are the things that nobody quote unquote teaches for right no one covers how that should work or what the level of effort eloise i like to refer to it the low nobody talks about the amount of effort that it takes to plan out and design a implementation plan then a fallback plan if something or for a maintenance window right maintenance windows can vary in size from just a few minutes and we're just going to go and change this in static route and then internet should go out this way to very large windows where you're trying to cut over a entire data center regardless of what the change is there's a number of things that need to be considered when you're doing a change and that's the part where the certifications don't help you with that the the the configuration guys don't help you with that they might all the configuration guides are there to do is to give you the config commands and all the options that are available with it and then some verification stuff to help you implement a particular feature there's no like you can't go google some of the things that you have to do as an engineer and i was sitting i was driving home and now i mind you i've been thinking about this for a long time long before i ever got back into consulting and i was thinking about it and i'm like i'm driving home it's it's kind of going on 3 30 in the morning and i'm about halfway home at this point and so i'm driving through driving down the interstate and i'm thinking about like listen to the radio and i'm thinking like okay if i wanted to create content that was tr going to try to replicate what a real world engineer would do how would i do that and i'm sitting there i'm thinking it was okay obviously i would i would immediately call the series real world networking right and as i was going through and thinking about okay what would i cover right you know i can't cover just routing and switching right because there's a whole bunch of different things that go into a network right router switches firewalls access points wireless controllers um vpn concentrators vpn gateways servers you know all kinds of other stuff right so as i'm sitting here thinking about i was like okay how would i do that what topology would i come up with is there just one topology that you could use in order to do real world networking i'm like no there's hundreds of topologies you can come up with it's like okay how would i do that and so i was thinking about it you know and i'm finally get home and i'm not tired because i just finished driving so i grabbed a little bite to eat and i sat on the computer until about six o'clock in the morning and i wasn't expected to be available for a call because everything had gone well but i said if anything happens don't hesitate to give me a call i'll help you out but if something happens and i need and you need help it's probably going to be a two-hour drive back to the colo to swap cables back to the old core and that was kind of the situation we were in there was really no you know type a couple commands into a switch and voila you're back up and running you're gonna be moving cables um so as i was sitting there thinking about it i've actually come up with several different network diagrams using eve you know come up with several different number diagrams and um every one of them i've got i've incorporated incorporated quite a bit of stuff like for example i work with nexus every day the network nexus operating system i deal with vmware daily i deal with palo alto daily i don't deal with a lot with asa anymore asas are kind of a thing of the past with the data centers or the customers that i work with i deal with private wan mpls you know site-to-site vpns and um stuff like that and my primary job is to work with clients and help them like another another client that i'm working with is we're looking to migrate their nexus 7000 and 5000 environment off of the 7ks and 5ks over to all 9300s so i'm working with them to figure out how all that type of stuff works there's a lot of we have a lot of calls you know we get on microsoft teams and we you know we talk through we plan i've got probably 25 sheets of paper sitting on my other desk that's over here in the corner that covers a lot of the has a lot of network diagrams drawn out and i've worked through a number of visio diagrams trying to get everything figured out to okay how am i going to do this documentation spreadsheets that i've had to build all the things that serve number one certifications don't teach you number two the things that you're never gonna get tested on the certification exam right even if you're gonna talk about design right even if you're talking about design nobody talks about how you would actually do a migration or what you need to do in order to execute the migration what are you migrating from what are you migrating to so that's where i came in you know just thinking to myself okay how would i do a real world networking video series how long would it be what would it entail and i came to the realization it would be super super long but it wouldn't be one topology right it wouldn't be one topology it would be several different topologies over the course of time covering a bunch of different things and stuff there would be a level of certification but it wouldn't be necessarily hey this expanding tree protocol this is what it's designed to do but i was also thinking to myself okay what if somebody is potentially studying for their ccna or they have their ccna and they're trying to work on say ccnp or you know whatever else do i um assume that whoever's watching has their ccna and understands the basic terminology or am i dealing with somebody you know to what is the minimum acceptable level that i start to teach from you know what is my base am i starting from c c and am i starting for network plus what is my barrier to what is this the viewer's barrier to entry needed what is that level of understanding needed in order for them to be able to go through the series and i decided that ccna was sufficient right if you've got a ccna or you're working on ccna and you you're pretty much there you should be able to understand most of the terms because it's a baseline certification right so i decided ccna was sufficient enough which means that number one you already have a baseline right even if you have like a network plus or you've taken the cct route switch or something like that you should have a baseline understanding of how networking works and not necessarily a super strong implementer but somebody that understands what a vlan is what trunking is what spanning tree is what basic routing looks like stuff like that because then you as long as you have a base foundation you can take that base foundation i could and i could talk about a particular feature or technology in a few minutes and help you explain it maybe introduce it to you for the first time and then implement it like okay here's technology a and this is how you would implement technology a but i was like okay well that's the that's the that's like the certification piece to it but this i'm not trying to build a certification i'm trying to build a series of content around the stuff that i'd have to deal with and i was like okay do i talk about how i had to sometimes get on calls with clients and you know work through a particular situation and so i thought to myself okay how would i do that and the answer that question is simple i would take some of the different experiences that i've had with clients and i would build use cases around some of the network diagrams that i've built some of them are unique some of them you probably would never see maybe i don't know but the bottom line is coming up with a network coming up with a solution to a customer's need needs or a customer's needs and being able to implement that that's what that's what delivery is all about right we're not on pre-sales where we're trying to sell hardware services and hours to a client and hopefully make a profit off of it we are going out and implementing right so that means change windows that means trying to figure out what we can do what we can't do you know what is going to be in scope for work what is a school what is a scope of work what is a bill of material so what i'm going to be doing throughout the through out probably several hundred videos is going through and taking uh several different number topologies that you will be able to download from the shareable link if you become a member and leveraging my experience as both an engineer and as an architect to come up with some sometimes the network diagrams are like what the heck is that you're going to see some crazy stuff when you get into the industry if you're already in the industry and you're doing any level of consulting or you're working with stuff not everything is best practice there will be things that are not best practice and unintentionally done and my goal will be to bring a level of this is how the technology works so there'll be a level of instruction you know maybe you've never touched a particular protocol or a feature before and i walk you through how it works there's gonna be a level of instruction there's a level of design okay this is what the customer has brought to you to us and we need to figure out how we're gonna do this not everything and you're gonna realize that i have this happen to me every once in a while you're not actually more than once every once in a while it's almost all the time you're not gonna know exactly on the top of your head how to fix it or what to implement you might have to talk through it and be like okay there's a couple different ways that we can do that the customer and i will be bringing this in as a as a topic of discussion sometimes the customer will say okay which one do you think is the best one or which way is the right way to do for our environment and be our advocate and you're gonna get that type of stuff where being the engineer things to me are very binary you know you have works it doesn't work right there's two different ways of doing it right so sometimes you have to take that uh line of thinking and be like okay there's a couple different ways we can do with it this is what i would recommend we do you know and sometimes your reasoning for that is it's the easiest implement other times the reason why you're putting that particular feature in is because there that is the only other option there is every use case is different every use case is going to be unique and you have to be sometimes it's going to be hard for you to justify why you're doing xyz sometimes you might have to take a step back and be like you know what i'm really not sure how i would fix that and you might have to bring in other resources talk to somebody else see what am i overlooking this is this is this is what i'm trying to do stupid that's the only way you're going to grow as an engineer is to face the reality of i don't know and deal with it head-on so that's what i am planning on doing in this series is bringing a bunch of different scenarios a bunch of different solutions a bunch of different use cases and we're going to walk through use cases we're going to walk through you know it's not going to be just you know 10 videos on ospf and 8 videos on the igrp and 485 videos on bgp and then you know like what you would expect to see in like a ccnp encore series eventually the topology i'm about to show you will cover the ccnp encore and rc topics but not only will it show you that not only will i whiteboard out how the technology works and that type of stuff but it will also okay here's how we implement it in this particular area so there'll be a design aspect because i am not unofficially studying for my ccde there will be a aspect of okay now that we've got that implemented the customer has brought a new requirement you know news okay so you did this project you know because one thing you're gonna realize about dealing with clients is they might have this entire network built but you're only looking at two percent of it right and you know that two percent inside and out and because you spend some time learning it and then the customer signs another project with your company and says okay i want you to do this now i need you to start looking over here so you have to go learn that part of their network and before you know it they like you they like working with you and you're now there you're the person that they come to guy or girl and say okay uh hey engineer we want you to work on this right so you might not have ever worked on that thing before well maybe you're not the right person to be doing that project even though they like you you might not be the right person for it but you know if you're like me your your customers come first and you're especially when you're working um you're gonna go and put in the necessary effort to try to get them where they need to be we're gonna do the same thing we're going to walk through a number of scenarios that are going to be like the they're probably going to scare you some of them i might get some pretty gnarly comments in the comment section be like rob what are you thinking the bottom line here is that when i was developing this and planning it out and trying to figure out what i wanted to do one topology was never going to work and i realized that a while back two simply just covering up the topics that are on the blueprint for an exam wasn't sufficient number three if i wanted to be successful with this series i needed to bring in multiple elements right we're going to talk about a bunch of different technologies we're going to talk about a bunch of different platforms some of them are going to the majority of them there's going to be as you know talk about what this technology is and how you would implement it does the design aspect of it why would you particular use that particular way of doing something you know for example implementing h.a and palo alto firewalls is not straightforward sometimes so but we're going to talk about that go through the implementation of it and then look at what it is that we learned from it you know so it's all about trying to understand exactly why things are done the way that they are then we're going to talk about okay statement of work or i'm sorry change window okay you've worked through this project at this point and now it's time to actually start implementing the solution you know maybe you've already done some level of work and the equipment is up and running but now it's time for you to do the actual cut over right a lot of i very it's very rare for me to do anything net new net new meaning that the customer doesn't already have something deployed i am i'm technically speaking with one of my customers i am doing a net new all new hardware and we're built we're building this thing in parallel to their existing environment we've had a bunch of different discussions on how to fix different things and then we're going to at some point here in the near future we're just going to start swinging cables over from the old to the new and eventually get them onto the new infrastructure and when the old infrastructure is completely dis deconnected disconnected from the old environment we'll be able to power down and get rid of it that's the goal a lot of things go into play when it comes to migrations and a lot of thought has to be done and you have to you're trying to make sure that you don't miss anything or you don't leave anything un untouched you know no stone unturned for i guess for lack of a better word those are the things we're going to be working through and going through for example change window how do you write a change window you know what happens if something goes wrong in your change window what do you do do you call somebody do you roll back to you know or what if you're 95 percent of the way through your change window and there's a catastrophe well sometimes it's it doesn't matter it could be 95 percent of the weight 95 is not 100. so then you have to roll the changes back you know start removing them have a plan how do i do that what do i need what do i need to configure in order for that to happen so when we go through this it's going to be a lot of hmm how will we get this into work you know then developing the configurations right looking at the device or look at the configuration guides as well as looking at you know developing the configs and we are going to hit uh we are going to hit snags like okay this isn't gonna work you know you'll you will i guarantee it try to deploy something in a lab and it won't work like okay this is my first thought so let's test it out so we'll throw it into a lab right you kind of like what i'm about to show you right here you know you have this lab in front of us that is rather involved right there's a lot going on and we need to get something working for example maybe we need to set up dmvpn or maybe i you know okay we added a couple new sites so we need to add it to the mpls environment you know or whatever the case might be or i need to move a workload from this data center over to this data center you know but i still need to be able to reach it you know via vxlan multi site there's a lot of different things that come into play with how the network comes together and it will be our job to get it working and stuff like that and the intention is to try to highlight what it's like to really be a network engineer not just be you know and not just follow somebody else's pre-built script right i've seen that done too i've seen it where people have built a training methodology and a training program around a pre-built set of labs and all that type of stuff and everything's been figured out right everything's been figured out but you know and all you're doing is literally just typing in commands you know and uh it's like i don't want to use the term the blind leading the blind but what i will call it is the uh the there's not a really the blind leading the blind is is is the analogy i want to use but it doesn't apply here but it's uh leading the blind around in a area they've never been right there's actually a tv show that i watch on netflix called in the dark where the main character is blind and she has a service dog called pretzel this is the dog's name and i don't believe that the real actress is blind in real life she portrays a blind person and she it's very evident that when she's going through the different scenarios she's you know she doesn't know where she's at she can't see what's going on and so but that's kind of like most of the students that i've dealt with that are at or below the ccna level when they look at something like this and they've been given a pdf of a set of commands to type in unless they have a baseline understanding of networking and they've got the requisite uh the prerequisite knowledge that they need to have in place in order for them to understand what it is they're typing in why they're typing it in there unless they've had all that stuff already provided to them that's the instruction that's the design that's the bill of material that's the statement of work unless they understand the the how and the why and the where the commands that are just like a pre-built pdf that you just type whatever okay you're going to type xyz in this particular area unless the student understands what it is that they're typing in it's leading the blind around an area they don't know eventually they'll kind of figure it out you know most people do they walk around they familiarize themselves with their surroundings they eventually learn where the bathroom is where the front door the back door are and you know where's the kitchen that type of stuff right but um and they usually have that cane or that walking stick that help them determine you know where stuff is at so they can kind of map it out because they don't have site to figure it out because when you look at this topology and you look at it looking at it just as a blank canvas right look at it like a i don't want to say a painting um maybe okay let's call it an outlined tattoo on somebody's arm right you can see or a back an outlined tattoo on somebody's back a very large back piece you can you know kind of just sometimes it might be hard for you to decipher what's supposed to be where depending on how good the outlining or how good the job has been done up at that point but just looking at this i don't have any i don't have any identification anywhere right there's no subnetting there's no you know what's what what's the i mean you can kind of figure it out if you know some level of networking you can kind of figure out what's going on and where but at the same point in time if you've never seen something like this before you're going to be like a deer in the headlights and that is what i'm talking about i'm talking about scenarios where you walk into a training program i don't care who's developed by you walk into a training program where they give you the network diagram they give you the configurations both the initial and the final and the instructor talks about the technology right and goes through and you know maybe it's a powerpoint presentation or does a little bit of whiteboarding to help you understand technology abc maybe you kind of get it maybe you don't get it at all maybe you have to watch a few more videos or watch it a few more times in order for you to like like oh okay now i got you or like i don't have a freaking clue what this guy's talking about regardless of what happens there's the the instruction or the lecture aspect of it right and then you have to have the practicality how do you get how do you lab it up what are you using to lab it up that type of stuff so i look at diagrams like this and i say okay i still have a lot of work left to do to make this understandable right you can't look at this and go oh i know exactly what rob's doing here i can i give i'm the creator of it obviously i know what it's what's going to be what where but you don't as the as the learner right if you're going to watch this video and you're going to be like i have no clue what rob's doing here that's okay i'm completely okay with you having that thought process but as someone who understands or built this i do know what's going on what my intention was for each thing that we're going to be covering my job is to then not only help you understand what it is we're going to be doing but also make it work so i know the question is going to be coming well why would you create content if it's going about a particular topic if what you're testing out isn't gonna work why would you post a video on that to show you how to figure it out because it's funny when you're trying to figure out how to get something to work and how to implement something and you don't know exactly what it is you need to get working you know you're missing that one command or you know you're you don't quite fully understand that particular what that command's purpose and you don't type it in or you do type it in but you don't know what it's doing maybe you're just kind of throwing config at the wall you know kind of like you throw you know paint at the wall to see what's up there's you throw a noodle at the wall to see if it sticks to see if it's done so there are things that we will do that my goal is not to just upload a bunch of videos that don't work my goal is to upload a video at some point in the future where okay what we did isn't working how do we fix it and then identify the problem and then go through because at the end at the beginning of the day right when you're when you're going through any deployment before you do the deployment you should know the config you're going to be typing in you should have it pre-laid out even if it's only just a couple commands you should have done the research you should have if you could lab it up to make sure it's going to work not everything can be labbed up and i understand that you've done you you've done your absolute best when it comes to research and understanding and now it's time to actually implement how do you verify things are working how do you know what you're doing is going to work well sometimes there's some guesswork and you're just hoping for the best because you might not have the ability of lapping it up regardless of the situation you're going to have to figure try to figure it out simple as that so that's what we're going to be doing here there's going to be a level figure it out i won't have all the answers out of the gate and i will be bringing in a bunch of different use cases probably a lot of use cases and saying okay the customer has brought us a new project and our goal is to implement xyz and xyz might be we needed to set up vxlan in the data center or we need to do whatever else we we you know i feel like talking about and going through how all this type of stuff works the bottom line is going to treat this series as if i'm i'm going to try to simulate my best the client that has a number of projects they've got a fairly large budget and they're trying to over over the course of a few years trying to upgrade their network or deploy new parts of their network you and i are going to be going through how to do that and we're not going to be focusing on just one topology we're going to have several topologies we're going to have something like this i mean i don't know if we're going to actually do these but topology where we have a different uh different deployment going on we have nexus and then we have pallos and other stuff like this where we're doing a vxlan this is just another topology that i'm working on but regardless of how we approach it the bottom line is we're going to be going through and trying stuff out and seeing what okay why did it fail what do we have to do to fix it and you know was it a misconfiguration was it a did you type in the wrong command did you miss something you know what was the problem try to get root cause analysis and then focus on what it is that we need to do in order to get a particular feature implemented and the bottom line by the time we're all said and done with this and we've gone through a number of different network diagrams where it's not going to be just 20 videos of i'll be talking about getting this topology up and running it's going to be a number of topologies that we're going to walk through and talk about and understand what's going on how do you get everything configured that type of stuff because as someone that works in the real world uh and real world networking not everything is very rarely do i ever get a very straightforward request right there's always something to more to it something that you didn't learn in the certification exams something that you might not have ever done before and guess what it's your job as the engineer to figure out how to make it happen everything i mean obviously the sales team is going to put you in an impossible situation hopefully but that's where that comes into play so i'm actually really looking forward to this it's going to take some time to get created and stuff like that we're gonna have to create uh documentation as we're going along and what that looks like and how do we come up with a subnetting plan what are we gonna do about the design you know what is needed what can we what will work what won't work that type of stuff and hopefully by the time we're all said and done with all of these different network designs that i want to work through and get up and running you will be and now mind you it's not just limited to routing and switching in some palo altos like there's going to be in you know data center networking there will be vmware content that goes along with that there will be nsx content that goes along with that i'm gonna do my best to incorporate a bunch of different other things in in it that it isn't just focused on core routing and switching right because core writing switching eventually gets old we're going to be talking about a bunch of different things you know and as i'm sitting here thinking about it's like okay the customer has a requirement where the firewall 36 is our active h a pair and we need to set up a site to say vpn to r38 you know you one those are going to be the things that are going to be presented as a new requirement and we have to go get working we have to get that up and running so these are the types of stuff that i feel are going to you're not going to see this anywhere else that's my goal is to create something that nobody's ever seen before and takes it beyond a pre-built scripted lab that you can just type the commands in by looking at whatever this is on the pdf and voila things just magically work i wanted to take it a step beyond that because in the real world no one's going to have no one's building anything for you right the network diagram isn't going to be built for you the configurations are going to be built for you the lab isn't going to be built by an instructor or your or your manager you're gonna have to do it all i told this to previous students of mine that you know they want to download for example they would want to download the packet tracer file for a particular lab and i'm like sure i'll give it to you but why don't you go build it you know why don't you get used to building your own labs you know because if you're reliant on somebody else to build labs how are you going to test something out how are you going to execute a proof of value or proof of concept to your manager if you don't know how to build lab so these are some things that i've wanted to do for a very very long time i'm actually really excited about this series if you are as well please leave a comment in the comment section below like share and subscribe and i'll see all of you in the next video

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Length: 44min 45sec (2685 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 18 2021