2023 Tech recap

It’s becoming a tradition now I guess :-), another small list of projects I worked on the past year.

• Consolidated some PowerDNS based nameservers into one, to make administration easier;
• Migrated a Software VDOM link to NPU VDOM link with minimal downtime;
• Started working with RIPE;
• Enabled IPv6 in two Service provider networks;
• Built a Service provider network based on Juniper, EVPN/VXLAN with the super cool tool called Juniper Apstra;
• Built a huge Juniper Virtual chassis for a customer;
• Built a classic out-of-band network;
• Decommissioned a lot of legacy networks;
• Replaced live routers running in a virtual chassis with a VRRP set-up without downtime;
• Consolidated some pfSense firewalls into a Fortigate;
• Written lots of ansible plays and improved older ones;
• Enabled IPv6 SSL-VPN and Nameservers;
• Implemented a couple of HA MariaDB Galera clusters;
• Designed and built 8 new datacenter racks from scratch, while also switching from copper to fiber, keeping the cables neat;
• Worked with some great external partners;
• Paved the way for a good foundation to build a high available Zabbix 6.4 cluster.