Antonio Ojea

Antonio Ojea is a Software Engineer at Red Hat, where he works on Kubernetes and other open source projects, mainly focused on cloud technologies, networking, and containers. He is currently a maintainer and contributor on the Kubernetes and KIND projects and has contributed in the past to other projects such as OpenStack and MidoNet.

During my early years as a professional, I started in the network department of a telecommunications company. We were responsible for the internal network and its services (DNS, email, WWW, and so on). At that time, our automation consisted basically of the following:

• Configuration: TCL/Expect scripts that connected to the network devices to apply different configurations
• Monitoring: Perl scripts that polled via SNMP the network devices and stored the data on Round Robin Database (RRD) files
• Logging: Using a central Syslog server dumping all logs to text files that were rotated periodically via cron
• Alerting and reporting...