Workshops

Calendar and Venue

Date: November 25th to 28th, 2024
Time: 09:00 – 18:00 NPT (GMT+0545)
Venue: Atithi Resort and SPA Pet. Ltd, Lakeside, Pokhara.

Workshop Details

1. Network Automation (APNIC)

Trainers: Terry Sweetser , Rupesh Basnet

Synopsis

The objective of this workshop is to introduce Network Automation using a combination of theory and hands-on-labs. At the conclusion, the participants should have a good understanding of what Network Automation is, and how it can be applied in their environments.

Target Audience

Engineers, Network Managers and Operators, who are interested in Network Automation and want to gain an understanding of how to utilise various tools to improve network consistancy.

Pre-requisites

It is assumed that participants have a basic understanding of:

  • Network operations, Internet technologies, OSI reference model and TCP/IP.
  • Basic command line (CLI) skills (Linux and at least 1 Router Operating System).

We recommend the following Academy courses be completed before the start of the tutorial:

Course Outline

  • Introduction to Automation
  • The 3 W’s of Automation
  • Introduction to Salt
  • Introduction to YAML and Jinja
  • Configuration Management using Salt
  • Salt States: Advanced Configuration Management
  • Parsing Output Using TextFSM
  • The Salt Event Bus
  • Napalm Logs
  • The Salt Reactor
  • Salt Rest API
  • Building a Device inventory
  • Extending Salt in your own environment

Course Materials

2. Advanced Routing (APNIC)

Trainers: Dibya Khatiwada, Milan Adhikari, Priya Ranjan Karn

Synopsis

This is a technical workshop, made up of theory and practical lab work to teach advanced BGP skills required for the configuration and operation of large scale networks that make up the Internet.

Target Audience

Technical staff who are building or operating a service provider or enterprise network with international and/or multi-provider connectivity.

Pre-requisites

It is assumed that the workshop participants know:

  • Have a working knowledge of an IGP (OSPF or IS-IS), and
  • Network operations, Internet technologies, OSI reference model and TCP/IP.
  • Basic command line (CLI) skills.

This workshop is not an introduction. The lab exercises use Cisco IOS configuration syntax.

Academy resources to be completed before start of workshop:

Course Outline:

  • Dual Stack operations with an introduction to ipv6.
  • BGP concepts for filtering updates by prefix, community strings and AS path.
  • BGP Security
  • Routing Security

Course Materials

3. Introduction to Containerization

Trainers

  • Chatur Ratna Shakya (PCH)
  • Shailesh Shrestha
  • Abhishek Okheda (Worldlink Communications Ltd)

Synopsis

This technical workshop, made up of lectures and hands-on lab modules, is targeted at anyone who is involved in Internet technology standards, local and national network infrastructure deployment and day to day network operations.

Target audience

Technical staff who are involved in Internet technology standards, local and national network infrastructure planning & deployment, and day-to-day network operations

Pre-requisites

Other requirements