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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 02/08/2026

Today I learned takeout.google.com provides a simple way to export all your Google data. For example, Google Photos. Time to get rid of the "Your account is 2% full message"

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 20/03/2026

Cake slices weighing less than 300 grams are considered cookies

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 17/03/2026

Last Thursday, the second CHNUG (Swiss Network User Group) meetup was a wrap! 🚀 Somehow, I ended up taking the lead on the low-cost recording setup. 🎙️ 📅 Save the date: CHNUG #3 is happening on May 28th, 2026, at Nokia Zurich. Check out the recordings and slides here: chnug.ch/chnug002/

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 08/03/2026

🎸 The Halo Effect 🎸 🎸 Heaven Shall Burn 🎸

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 21/10/2025

Finally started redesigning/updating my personal webpage: ubaumann.ch

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 17/09/2025

DCD was a pleasant experience and unfolded a new world of "how to build your own datacenter" from a physical location perspective. Saw some interesting cooling systems. I will never use this knowledge. 🤣

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 27/08/2025

API first for first-semester students in the Network Foundation module commencing next month.

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 01/08/2025

It's a strange feeling if the CI/CD runs without any failures when migrating a Python project from Poetry to UV. Not sure it can really be that smooth. 🤔 github.com/Infrastructu...

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Migrate from poetry to uv by ubaumann · Pull Request #43 · InfrastructureAsCode-ch/nettowel

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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Network Slicing + Two Pizza Teams = Double-stuffed RJ45 Ports #networking: 🌐 AWS NAT Gateway interactive blog 🗺️ D2 to visualise networks 🎓 k8s for Network Engineers 🤔 Is Cisco NDFC really ACI? 🐍 BGP on ceEOS with Python 🤘 fck-nat for AWS VPCs 💀 Knowledge work is dying reloadin.net/p/two-pizza-...

reloadin.net

Two Pizza Team Tuesdays

We're only paying on Two-for-Tuesday deal days

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 10/07/2025

I finally published a new blog post on creating network topologies using the D2 diagramming language! If you're familiar with GraphViz or Mermaid, it's worth exploring what D2 has to offer, including modern syntax, icons, interactivity, and more. infrastructureascode.ch/d2-network-t...

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Creating Network Topologies with D2 - Infrastructure as Code

This blog post explores how to create network topologies using D2, a modern and powerful diagramming tool. It highlights key features such as grouping, labeling, interactivity, and layout options to h...

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 24/06/2025

The moment you execute a command and expect it to fail, but it just works. And now, you need to verify if it worked.

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 18/06/2025

Today, drinking coffee and Cisco are paying

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 10/06/2025

What a cool project. GitOps for Infrahub Artefacts. The operator allows deploying any CRD on a k8s cluster, obeying all 4 OpenGitOps principles. github.com/infrahub-ope...

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GitHub - infrahub-operator/vidra: A continuous delivery Kubernetes operator for Infrahub

A continuous delivery Kubernetes operator for Infrahub - infrahub-operator/vidra

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Damien Garros @dgarros.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

#autocon3 is starting strong with 2 days of workshops @infrastructureascode.ch and @steinzi.bsky.social running the show to teach everyone how to use NUTS and Pytest

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 17/04/2025

Have you ever tried building a Terraform provider for a dynamic schema? @marcom4rtinez.bsky.social did! Marco created a strategy to generate tailored Terraform providers for dynamic Infrahub schemas, detailing the build and usage process in two blog posts. infrastructureascode.ch/author/mmart...

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 13/04/2025

Ever wanted to provide containerlab as a service to your team? Two students are doing great work with antimony, providing a modern frontend and backend to integrate with containerlab and clabernetes.

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 10/04/2025

A new podcast was just published on Network Automagic. Steinz, Marco and I are discussing the Network Unit Testing System (NUTS). networkautomagic.net/podcast/na003/

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NA003 - NUTS with Marco Martinez

NUTS the Network Unified Test System with Marco Martinez and Urs

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 06/04/2025

The feeling when the lab finally works after you realise you forgot the "vxlan encapsulation ipv6" command.

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 03/04/2025

I couldn't decide whether to give a workshop or talk at #AutoCon3. So, I guess I will do both.

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 31/03/2025

I don't want to know how much energy was used to train a model capable of "painting" me so well.

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 24/03/2025

It's funny to see Cisco teaching on Cisco U. how important it is to mitigate vendor lock-in regarding AI stacks.

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 21/03/2025

I like the jetbrains.com cookie banner!

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Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Ingress is dead, long live....Gateway API Luckily there is a community written tool to make the transition seamless. Find out how to use ingress2gateway in this blog from Christine Kim

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Fast-Tracking Your Migration From Ingress to Gateway API

Struggling with Kubernetes Ingress limitations? Discover how to easily migrate to Cilium’s Gateway API implementation.

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 21/03/2025

The University GitLab service announced a 64-hour maintenance window. I'm not sure how I should feel about it.

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 11/02/2025

Taking Pydantify further and creating more elaborated automation with YANG-based pydantic classes www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM3s...

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How can you use Pydantify?

YouTube video by Roman Dodin

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 07/02/2025

It's a nice feeling when you finally cross the 80% line

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 06/02/2025

After two hours of searching for my robot vacuum cleaner in the apartment, I nearly gave up.

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 06/02/2025

I am listening to the draft-iab-nemops-workshop-report-00. Works really well.

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 31/01/2025

These are some huge dependencies.

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 30/01/2025

Was great to collab with @infrastructureascode.ch and Dan Peachey on making pydantify work with SR Linux YANG models. I love this infinity times more than templating youtu.be/oClamTj4LiY

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Network automation with YANG and Python is a reality

YouTube video by Roman Dodin

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 27/01/2025

Pydantify v0.7.0 has been released 🥳🥳🥳 github.com/pydantify/py... Convert YANG models into @pydantic.dev models and generate your RESTCON/NTCONF/gNMI payload in a Pythonic way. Say goodbye to generating structured data with jinja2.

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Release v0.7.0 · pydantify/pydantify

What's Changed Add FAQ by @ubaumann in #23 FAQ: Add PydanticSerializationError by @ubaumann in #24 Add decimal64 support by @ubaumann in #27 Fix multiple model output issues by @dpeachey in #28 ...

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 17/01/2025

Today, around 100 students had to write the Computer Networking 1 exam. They definitely learned something.

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 16/01/2025

> Hello Urs, > Your CKA Certification is scheduled to expire on 2025-04-14.

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 02/01/2025

I developed a simple proof of concept using Pydantic and Faker to generate synthetic data for L2 or L3 interfaces.

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 15/12/2024

So far I am happy with the "workspaces" feature of UV. Playing around with mono-repo. Are you a fan of mono-repos and why? docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/...

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Using workspaces | uv

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 10/12/2024

Starting to look like a workplace. There is still a lot of work to do. Now, I need to look closer to the OBS settings.

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 08/12/2024

Did you know that testing the streamlit frontend is easy?

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 07/12/2024

I am thinking of giving my home office a face-lifting and producing some videos. What does your video/audio setup look like? PS: is the 20% cut from Onlyfans acceptable?

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 03/12/2024

I still need to do some prompt template engineering. The result is okay, but the agent did not use the provided tool as I intended. xD

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 01/12/2024

I'm a bit late to the party, but after running sed 's/netbox/infrahub/g', I'm now close to getting it to work with Infrahub. github.com/ubaumann/inf...

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Urs Baumann @urs.infrastructureascode.ch · 29/11/2024

After 1,234 days of trying, I still haven’t progressed in learning another language.

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