Why Automate?
Digital transformation – Moving workloads between Private and Public Clouds
Organizations are modernizing their business strategies and technologies to better support customer needs
As companies embrace digital transformation, they need to move at the pace of software, new apps, new clouds and new technologies
Traditional network engineering and administration often do not align with those requirements
By adopting network automation organizations can take advantage of the following:
Standardized Processes
Reduced chance of human errors, which affect network performance and security
Eliminate manual network tasks and enhance network functionality
Robust Quality Control
Integrated testing
Ability to locate and identify the root cause of network or security issues before deploying to production
Speed and Agility
Continuous Improvement
Rapid provisioning of new services, self service provisioning, enhancements, and upgrades
What’s The Fear?
Culture change
Organization commitment
Top down, bottom up
Willingness to learn new things
Takes 15 minutes for me to do it, it will take me hours to automate
Machines should do repetitive work, people should do problem solving!
The Network Automation Workshop
We have designed a network automation workshop to help network engineers become familiar with the technology
To overcome some of the fears
We have broken it down into the following stages:
The 4 Stages
In each stage we introduce new concepts and technology that gradually build on the prior step
Network Automation Technology
All the technology included in the workshop
Network Engineers and Architects will work on the following platforms:
Visual Studio Code
Git
Docker
ContainerLab
Ansible
Gitlab
Python
APIs
CI/CD
Batfish
Nautobot
Network Diagram
Two Ubuntu Linux Server will be required to support the workshop
Network Automation Workflow
During the workshop, Network Engineers and Architects will have the opportunity to become familiar with some of the following technology:
Summary
By the end of the workshop. The Network Engineer and Architect will gain the confidence to adopt network automation by implementing the following pipeline:
