09 May 2024

Time to Start Back

 Well the time has come to start back with blogging what I learn.  I am starting on the journey of my JNCIE and that will be either ENT or DC.  I have been working on learning Juniper for the past 8 months or so and have done all the free training that I can from them. Now I have to really buckle down.  I have to put my money where my mouth is.

Overall the path to where I am now (JNCIA-JUNOS/DC/DEVOPS/SEC, JNCIS-ENT/SP, JNCIP-ENT) hasn't been that bad.  I am studying right now for the JNCIP-DC (let's see how that goes next week) and that has the most new stuff for me.  Having a strong route/switch background from Cisco helped to prepare me with really only learning the nuances of how to program their devices.

Now on to the fun stuff. I know that no matter the path, I have to learn and make sure that I have routing protocols down like a champ.  That is where I will start.  I won't be writing every day.  I will try every week though to talk about some new thing that I did that week in a protocol.  

To do this I will be using EVE-NG Pro with vMX, vEX, and vQFX images. I have also loaded Apstra and Junos Space on their so that I can do either way on that one.  

This is just my way of making sure that I hold myself accountable to all my studying.