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Some Real World Network Automation Lessons Learned
Eight months ago I joined the DevNet Sandbox Engineering and Operations team. For the first time in about eight years, I was back in a role where I had day to day responsibilities for a production environment. A big reason for my interest in joining this team was to see what it was like to apply the…
How Do I Get Started Learning Network Automation? – Revisited
Back in March of 2018 I wrote the blog “How Do I Get Started Learning Network Programmability?” to help answer, well that question. It was (and still is) one of the most common questions I get asked. It’s been a wicked ride this last year and half in network automation, I figured…
CI/CD Demo: Pipelines Are Amazing! – NetDevOps Series, Part 9
This is part 3 of how to run your own demo using CI/CD pipelines for network configuration management. Previous posts in the NetDevOps Series are available here. In the last two posts we have setup our server and local environments. So, it is now time to look at the actual demonstration on the power…
CI/CD Demo: Setting Your Local Environment – NetDevOps Series, Part 8
This is part 2 of the CI/CD Demo, on how to run your own demo using CI/CD pipelines for network configuration management. Julio’s previous posts in the NetDevOps Series are available here. To experience and demonstrate the full NetDevOps configuration pipeline, you may want to setup a local d…
CI/CD Demo: Intro and Server Setup – NetDevOps Series, Part 7
Previous posts in the NetDevOps Series are available here. This is part 1 of 3, on how to run your own demo using CI/CD pipelines for network configuration management. Now that you know about some of the most important building blocks for programmability, it is time to see them working together and…
Applying DevOps to Your Network – NetDevOps Series, Part 6
DevOps principles are not exclusive to software development, and some of them can definitely be applied to infrastructure configuration. NetDevOps brings the culture, technical methods, strategies and best practices of DevOps to network management. Sometimes you might find it referred to by differen…
Automation and Orchestration at Cisco Live – US
With Cisco Live in San Diego fast approaching next week, we are in plate spinning mode, but I did want to take moment to call out the “must see” demos and sessions related to network automation and orchestration. Sessions Carl Moberg & Kevin Corbin will be talking about how to mesh…
Coding Essentials III – NetDevOps Series, Part 5
Previous posts in the NetDevOps Series are available here. Let’s finalize our review of the different foundational coding building blocks that network engineers need to understand and use when entering the programmability world. REST APIs In previous posts you have seen it several times alread…
Coding Essentials II – NetDevOps Series, Part 4
Previous posts in the NetDevOps Series are available here. Let’s continue our review of the different foundational coding building blocks that network engineers need to understand and use when entering the programmability world. NETCONF and RESTCONF Now that we understand data models and data…
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