nog.fi meeting 2026.06

Most network engineers pick a vendor and learn its tools. This session takes a different angle. Starting from a real ISP and IXP lab built on EVE-NG, I'll show how the same Python automation skills, querying live state, provisioning BGP peers, and pushing wide config changes work across both MikroTik RouterOS and Cisco IOS-XE, using their native APIs. No Ansible, no heavy frameworks. Just HTTP, JSON, and a few dozen lines of Python that any network engineer can read, own, and extend. The goal isn't to compare vendors or declare a winner, it's to show that when you understand the protocol underneath, the vendor becomes just a detail.