Network Automation Concepts

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Network engineers starting their automation journey often focus on low-level tools like Ansible or Python programming skills. These are valuable skills, and it's always important to know what tools are available and understand how to use them, but without going further, you risk becoming an Expert Beginner. Like knowledge of OSPF configuration commands won't make you a network designer, an Ansible ninja lacks the foundational knowledge needed to build automation systems.

This webinar provides an overview of network automation concepts you should master as you progress from easy wins like creating automated reports or device configurations to building automation systems.

Contents

The webinar covers these important network automation concepts:

• Data models (including device, network and services data models)
• Data stores
• Single source of truth
• Verification, validation and testing
• Abstraction layers and data model transformations
• Idempotency
• System-wide transactional consistency and rollback
• Event-driven automation

These processes and solutions are also described in the webinar:

• Infrastructure-as-code (IaC)
• GitOps
• Unit tests, integration tests, system tests, end-to-end tests
• Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD)
• Orchestration systems and APIs

Finally, we're trying to debunk overhyped ideas including:

• Intent-based networking
• Imperative and declarative systems and APIs
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

The Author

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