In reply to Ioannis.

Great feedback! Indeed, my intent is not to dissuade engineers from automating… apologies if it sounded otherwise. This first post is merely the summary of many conversations that I’ve had with engineers after their first experience with Ansible. Most gave up and the rest never got the full use of the tool. The next several posts are meant to better position engineers to be successful automating their network operations with Ansible and, eventually, a full NetDevOps workflow. While hype might be valuable, I’ve always found it more effective to get the marketing out of the way so that we can get to the real work of automation. Unfortunately, being blunt is one of my many personality flaws. I thank you for allowing me to clarify my intentions and I will do my best to incorporate your observations as the series unfolds.