Nick Morrison (he/they)

About Me

• Nick Morrison | https://nanocat.net | [email protected] | he/they
• Networking since 2000 (started out in Adelaide, Australia)
• CCIE #28800 (passed the lab in Bangalore in 2011)
• Loves teaching networking
• Loves being interrupted during workshops
• Loves cool tech
• Doesn’t love the imbalance in the tech industry

About You

How the Workshops Work

• Sometimes an interactive “lecture” about a particular topic
• Sometimes a prepared lab task
• “Two steps forward, one step back” - we will sometimes venture into uncharted territory, and then come back to talk about what we discovered.
• Tech stack:
  • containerlab - orchestration tool
  • containerlab discord: https://discord.gg/fbcMCrQ4
  • hetzner - linux VMs
  • diagrams.net - diagrams
  • google drive containing slides and lab exercises

How Much the Workshops Cost

• If you have no income, please don’t pay anything
• If you have an income, please help me to cover the costs of the materials
• If your company will cover your cost, please help me to cover my time :-)
• I am an Einzelunternehmer with a VAT ID, so I can send you a formal invoice
• Depending on the lab, we will use a single large VM, or multiple smaller VMs
  • Single large VM costs ~ € 30-40 per month (charged hourly)
  • Multiple small VMs cost ~ € 5-10 per month (charged hourly)
• But, they can be shutdown when not in use, massively reducing cost.

Roadmap

• start: basic IP addressing / CIDR / basic routing

• middle: we create this together :-)

• end: Multicast EVPN with eBGP leaf spine blah blah blah