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Steven Carter

Solutions Architect

Cisco US Public Sector

Steven Carter has over 20 years of industry experience working in large universities, government research and development, and the private sector. He has spent time as a system administrator running some of the World’s largest supercomputers and a network engineer building out the World’s first SDN network for the Department of Energy. In addition, Steven has a wide range of experience in networking including operations, embedded software development, and sales. He has spent the last couple of years helping large customers automate their networks and build out NetDevOps workflows.

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September 9, 2019

DEVELOPER

Automating Your Network Operations: Focus on Outcomes

Automation should begin with a thoughtful process that identifies the most important outputs of your infrastructure and what the current bottlenecks are in producing those outputs.

February 21, 2019

DEVELOPER

Automating your Network Operations, Part 5 – Just the Facts

To come up with a template or model for all your network devices before you automate any of them would delay the benefits of automation.

December 3, 2018

DEVELOPER

Automating Your Network Operations, Part 4 – Dude, Where’s My Data?

If you are relatively new to Ansible, you might have noticed that the playbook examples in my last blog did not have any variables defined in them. Common examples often...

October 24, 2018

DEVELOPER

Automating Your Network Operations, Part 3 – Data-Driven Ansible

The combination of YANG and NETCONF give us structure and determinism to enable network programmability, and give us several operational advantages over CLI.

September 26, 2018

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Automating Your Network Operations, Part 2 – Data Models

Before I get into data models, I want to take a slight diversion to incorporate some of the feedback that I received from the first blog. It was pointed out...

September 5, 2018

DEVELOPER

Automating Your Network Operations, Part 1 – Ansible Basics

New blog series gets you beyond the hype and simple demonstrations, and lets you dive more deeply into how and why to automate your network operations.