Network Automation for DevOps
Network automation is an integral part of the overall infrastructure automation. Yet, it has been largely left out of the DevOps movement.
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Network automation is an integral part of the overall infrastructure automation. Yet, it has been largely left out of the DevOps movement.
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We ARE going to show you a specific service, using YOUR network, where the technology can be ready to go faster than your marketing or sales department can be ready to sell it.
These engineers recognized that network management was full of increasingly complex ‘stuff’ being ladled over the top of our networks ignoring the root issues. They believed that a standardized data construct that could be used within any vendor, but it would be such a monumental undertaking that up to that point, nobody had tackled it. This significantly changes how services are created. It changes the focus from defining a configuration to defining a service. This is a capability that a business leader can understand and get behind.