Day One Books

This book shows how to leverage Canonical MAAS (Metal as a Service) to bootstrap physical and virtual infrastructure to host Kubernetes (K8s) clusters.

Welcome to the world of Shor's Algorithm, superposition, entanglement, and Quantum Key Distribution (QKDs), with detailed significant steps toward quantum-resistant cryptography.

Juniper is serious about network sustainability and serious about the role that we can serve for the betterment of our times. These engineering papers begin the collection of new ideas and new best practices.

This book is a thorough examination of Junos tunnel stitching techniques for data centers by some of the leading experts at Juniper Networks with step-by-step instructions on how to decide, design, deploy, and manage.

This new addition to the Segment Routing library takes you through the basics of SRv6 and follows with a detailed description of configuring SRv6 on Junos®.

The author takes you from basic knowledge of OpenStack and SDN into some deeper areas around Juniper Contrail plus Red Hat OpenStack architecture deployment details. Well planned and laid out even if you never worked with Red Hat.

Here’s the go-to resource for deploying fabrics with Juniper Apstra and a first look at its powerful fabric management capabilities. Clear, easy-to-follow examples show you all the basics you need to know.

This book thoroughly covers the characteristics, advantages, use cases, and installation of cRPD. You’ll get great perspectives on containerized networking with meaningful and easy-to-understand use cases. Check out the great quotes on the back cover!

Secure, field-tested, device and protocol configurations for running Junos routers in the BGP default-free zone. • Now updated for 2022.

A must-read book focused on using Segment Routing to address the challenges in provisioning LSPs and the distribution of labels in large-scale transport networks. The authors lead you through the ins and outs of a Junos migration with ease. This book is included in the new Segment Routing Book Bundle.

Scale your BGP convergence performance by taking advantage of the multicore (multiprocessing) capabilities provided by modern processors. It’s the perfect Day One book, short, precise, and can get you up and sharding quickly.

Let’s do SDN and use the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) as an open source data plane for Contrail/Tungsten Fabric vRouter. Two CTO’s provide back cover quotes for this one: 200 pages, 100 illustrations, four very senior author-engineers.

Here’s a complete look at the cutting edge new protocol for data center IP fabric routing. It’s scalable, open, and designed from the ground up. Written and reviewed by experts, this 280-page book shows you how to configure, monitor, and troubleshoot RIFT.

Create containers with Docker and Kubernetes. Manage and secure them all with the cSRX. This is a true Day One book: 100 pages, 5 chapters, and just enough information to move you along as quickly as possible. Discover the cSRX on day one!

Synchronization requirements are becoming more stringent and widely spread with the advent of 5G technologies and here’s the book you need to understand it all. It’s a must-read for those who need to understand Junos timing functionality and how it works across Juniper product lines. Packed with links, sample configs, figures, and tips.

The Juniper Ambassadors show you how to stand up a Juniper network and how to configure and troubleshoot the fabled Junos CLI with ease and confidence. Try Junos the Ambassador way and be up and running on day one. Minor errata corrected April 2021.

Take an amazing trip inside the MX 5G with a packet walkthrough into big iron and some monster ASICs. Juniper Ambassador-written, it illustrates why the MX 5G and Junos powers networks around the world.

Learn to configure and troubleshoot an EVPN/VXLAN fabric with multicast optimization. “You’ll put this book down with a renewed energy to take your EVPN and multicast skills to the next level.”

Get inside segment routing with this series of advanced use cases. "This book takes you all the way from the fundamental principles of Segment Routing to advanced topics such as TI-LFA in an easy to follow, clearly explained format. SREs, network designers, and network architects will all make it their go-to reference.”

Build a Junos® OS Route Server for your Internet Exchange. "Whether you’ve been running an IXP for quite some time or planning to start one, this Day One book helps you deploy your route servers – a vital service that exists in every IXP network."

Understand, verify, and deploy Junos node slicing. "This book shows you how to surgically carve a physical router into “node slices,” each running its own version of the OS, administered by its own group, running its own protocols."

Review MPLS basics while configuring traffic engineering requirements that can build a fault tolerant network. “Day One: MPLS Up and Running on Junos has been a vital learning tool for me, allowing for personal growth and understanding of MPLS and traffic engineering."

Extend your existing network and security practices into the AWS environment without compromising performance or compliance.

This book provides the curious engineer with a global view of the short life (a few milliseconds) of packets inside the Juniper Networks MX Series 3D routers. While it may be a short life inside the router, the packets are processed by amazing technology.

Learn how Salt works with the Junos® OS to build an event-driven infrastructure (EDI). ”The quality is top-notch. It is well-written and concise without leaving anything important out. Even though I had never done anything in Saltstack, I was able to write a few states for our network in a day or two.”

Create Ansible playbooks to automate your network tasks. NEW edition 2.1! Updates, corrections, revisions to this popular book.

What you need is a JTAC engineer to explain the ins and outs of the MX Series and Joe Naughton provides the configurations, the feature sets, the application layer gateways, and the syslogs you need to make the MX Series hum. However you define CGNAT, it begins with MX.

Follow this book’s lab to configure the basics of Segment Routing and then enable advanced traffic protection.

The much anticipated data center EVPN book, complete with five different case studies for building and connecting your data centers, dozens upon dozens of engineering diagrams, and the complete configurations to make it all work. It’s all here.

DDoS attacks are becoming increasingly prevalent on public IP networks. They have huge economic impact to the victim as well as the customers who share infrastructure with the victim. This book gives the reader the tools they need to quickly respond and mitigate DDoS attacks using BGP FlowSpec technology.

You need to configure your EX Series Ethernet switch and you need to get it done today. This practical, best-selling book, now in its third edition, shows you what to do and exactly how to do it.

JSNAPy is an evolution of the original JSNAP module: the nextgen module for automating network verification. Not only has JSNAPy simplified data collection, it has also reduced the amount of effort needed for verification, and that means your late night cut overs just got a lot shorter, safer, and completely verified.

This book is for beginning users of devices running the Junos OS, or as a refresher course when it’s time to scale Juniper technology. It not only lays the foundation for learning the Junos OS, but also facilitates understanding of the more advanced Junos OS books that populate the Day One library.

Day One: Finishing Junos Deployments is a two fold book: first, it serves as a reminder for those all-important finishing touches that should be applied to any Junos OS deployment, and second, it describes how to implement those finishing touches on a network device running Junos OS.

Juniper Networks takes the security of its products very seriously and has created proven processes and procedures following industry best practices. This book divides Juniper’s hardening procedures into four topic areas – Non-Technical, Physical Security, Operating System Security, and Configuration Hardening.

Distinguished Engineer Brian Petersen reveals patterns in networking protocols that have emerged over the past decades. It’s fascinating reading about networking theories, operations, protocols, and practices from the perspective of the hardware that does the work of actually forwarding all of those packets.

Find the right IPsec VPN solution in this cookbook full of use cases, sample configurations, and security best practices.

Automate your network tasks with Junos PyEZ scripts that save time, energy, and effort. You don’t have to be a coder to take advantage of Junos and PyEZ.

When it’s time to swap out your Cisco routers with new Juniper Networks devices, use this book to expand your skill set to include Junos, and make the transition to an advanced operating system with speed and confidence.

There are many books on MPLS, but most are directed towards engineers with high levels of expertise and some networking engineers can get quite lost. This book takes a different tactic and focuses on configuring and recognizing MPLS basics, so those larger MPLS complexities seem less daunting.

This networking fundamentals book describes how a Junos device is able to forward a packet between networks using either static routes or any of five popular routing protocols: RIP, OSPF, IS-IS, iBGP, and eBGP. Learn how to route the Internet Protocol in a day.

Set up the SRX Series as a next-generation firewall and take advantage of its advanced security features, including machine-learning malware prevention capabilities.

As one of the most widely used routing protocols, OSPF has many advantages over other IGPs (Interior Gateway Protocols), with its ability to scale in a manageable way being one of the most important. OSPF also has the advantage of converging much faster than other enterprise level IGPs, such as EIGRP or RIP.