Syllabus 4 — Community path

Syllabus 4 — Community-shaped path

What practitioners repeat

Lab daily · start small · capture packets · one platform deep · free stacks teach most ideas · finish a path · document failures · routing policy is the professional gate · automate only after manual competence

Phases

1. Containerlab comfortable
   
2. Bridging mini-campus
   
3. IP + single-area IGP
   
4. Services & filters
   
5. Self-check: design, build, break, recover
   
6. Multi-area + edge routing + policy
   
7. Tunnels / fabric taste
   
8. Automation + CI
   
9. Portfolio of 3 polished labs

Footguns

Too many images early · no address plan · skipping L2 · edge routing before IGP · automation without reading tables · never failing the lab on purpose