Get Started with EVE-NG - A Complete Installation Guide fron Scratch
🎬 AI-Powered Network Automation - Video #1: EVE-NG Installation & First Lab
Learn to install EVE-NG and build your first virtual network lab. We'll configure VMware, deploy EVE-NG, and create a basic network topology with routers and switches.
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🎓 COMPLETE SERIES
📺 Full Playlist: • AI-Powered Network Automation Series
📂 GitHub Repo: https://github.com/network-tocoder/AI...
This comprehensive series teaches modern network automation with AI integration:
→ Phase 1: Foundation (Videos 1-3) - Lab setup, tools, version control
→ Phase 2: Network Automation (Videos 4-6) - Ansible, FortiGate, APIs
→ Phase 3: Source of Truth (Videos 7-10) - NetBox, auto-discovery, testing
→ Phase 4: AI Integration (Videos 11-15) - MCP, Claude Code, custom tools
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🛠️ TECH STACK
This series covers:
Ansible | NetBox | Docker | EVE-NG | FortiGate | pyATS | MCP | Claude Code | Cisco
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🏆 WHAT YOU'LL BUILD
By completing this series:
✅ Production-ready lab environment
✅ Automated network configurations
✅ NetBox source of truth
✅ AI-powered workflows
✅ Real-world DevOps skills
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! --- Basic Setup ---
hostname "Hostname"
no ip domain-lookup
ip domain-name networkcoder
! --- Local User & Passwords ---
username networkcoder privilege 15 secret nc
username ansible privilege 15 secret ansible@123
enable secret ansible@123
service password-encryption
! --- SSH Configuration ---
crypto key generate rsa modulus 2048
ip ssh version 2
ip ssh time-out 60
ip ssh authentication-retries 3
! --- Console & VTY Lines ---
line console 0
logging synchronous
login local
exec-timeout 10 0
line vty 0 15
login local
transport input ssh
transport output ssh
exec-timeout 10 0
! --- Management VLAN & IP ---
vlan 10
name MANAGEMENT
interface vlan 10
ip address 192.168.10.10 255.255.255.0
no shutdown
ip default-gateway 192.168.10.1