Even the most complicated and comprehensive automation infrastructure has to start from a standard. Tom Hollingsworth looks at the newest features offered by Pica8 and how they can help you use standard frameworks to help everything in your network conform to the way it should be done.
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Rebecca Fitzhugh – IT Origins
Fine out how Rebecca Fitzhugh started her IT career, one that’s seen her as a Marine sysadmin and now a Technical Marketing Engineer. We discuss the best and worst trends, how she approaches work, and get some great advice.
Intent-Based Network Automation with Ansible
On an upcoming episode of the On-Premise IT Roundtable, we’ll be taking a deep dive into intent-based networking. In the meantime, Jason Edelman went into a deep dive on the idea of intent within a network, how it impacts desired state, and why IBN isn’t exactly a new idea.
There and Back Again – A Journey into Network Automation – Introduction
Mark Prior wrote up a really interesting series of post about his professional development. He read the tea leaves and saw that he needed to get up to speed on network automation and expand his coding skills. It’s a remarkably candid and honest look at the process. In his first section, he’s teaching himself Arista’s Zero Touch Provisioning […]
Leveraging Cisco NX-API with Ansible to Make Your Life Easier
Jason Edelman comments on his blog: I had a conversation recently with someone who has more of a sysadmin background. We started talking about the intersection of DevOps and networking and while his environment wasn’t large, there was one pain point he talked about — he doesn’t have access to the network switches to […]