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Chris Beye

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I'm a Cisco Customer Success Specialist for data center and a network automation entusiast. I turn complex network deployments into manageable code, and I share the lessons learned along the way.

Here you'll find practical guides on GitLab CI/CD, network digital twins, infrastructure as code, and the occasional home lab adventure.

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Building a secur Nexus Dashboard MCP Server
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Building a secur Nexus Dashboard MCP Server

How I built and open-sourced a Model Context Protocol server that enables Claude AI to automate Cisco Nexus Dashboard operations - from architecture to GitHub release.

• 13 min read

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From WordPress to Next.js: How AI Helped a Network Engineer Build a Modern Blog
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From WordPress to Next.js: How AI Helped a Network Engineer Build a Modern Blog

A network engineer's journey from WordPress frustration to a modern, blazing-fast blog built with Next.js—powered by AI collaboration with Claude Code.

• 8 min read
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My Proxmox backup strategy
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My Proxmox backup strategy

This will be one of my final posts in the Proxmox series, but I couldn't finish without covering a crucial topic—backups. 🛡️

• 9 min readUpdated
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My journey from ESXi to Proxmox
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My journey from ESXi to Proxmox

With this blog article I am creating a new category which is all about Home Lab deployments and related topics.

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Building a secur Nexus Dashboard MCP Server
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Building a secur Nexus Dashboard MCP Server

How I built and open-sourced a Model Context Protocol server that enables Claude AI to automate Cisco Nexus Dashboard operations - from architecture to GitHub release.

• 13 min read
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From WordPress to Next.js: How AI Helped a Network Engineer Build a Modern Blog
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From WordPress to Next.js: How AI Helped a Network Engineer Build a Modern Blog

A network engineer's journey from WordPress frustration to a modern, blazing-fast blog built with Next.js—powered by AI collaboration with Claude Code.

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Dear Future Me: How to Fix Splunk Better Webhook SSL Certificate Errors (Again)
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Dear Future Me: How to Fix Splunk Better Webhook SSL Certificate Errors (Again)

Have you ever spent hours troubleshooting an issue, only to realize you've solved this exact problem before? That was me last week, watching my closed-loop

• 6 min read
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From Hang-Ups to High Gear: How I Fixed My VMware VMs on Proxmox
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From Hang-Ups to High Gear: How I Fixed My VMware VMs on Proxmox

I started running Proxmox a little over a year ago.Since day one, it's been rock solid — stable, flexible, and fun to automate.I migrated my lab and a few

• 5 min read
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Automating ThousandEyes ICMP Tests with Python
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Automating ThousandEyes ICMP Tests with Python

Let's face it! Creating monitoring tests manually in the ThousandEyes web UI can feel like writing tickets by hand. It works, but when you have 40+ endpoints

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Cisco Router, Meet Proactive Monitoring: Deploying ThousandEyes on Catalyst 8000V
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Cisco Router, Meet Proactive Monitoring: Deploying ThousandEyes on Catalyst 8000V

In this post, we're exploring the world of application hosting on Catalyst routers, specifically focusing on deploying ThousandEyes on a Catalyst 8000v router

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