Jan 15 2020 56 mins 1
Today’s Day Two Cloud episode explores network automation through the lenses of infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines. As network automation permeates organizations, does it make sense for network engineers to adopt more developer-like processes, methods, and tools? Can you successfully automate your infrastructure without elements such as code repositories and a CI/CD processes? Our guests for this conversation, sponsored by Cisco, are Carl Moberg, Senior Director of Product Management at Cisco; and Kristian Larsson, who has dual roles at Cisco and Deutsche Telekom. We discuss: * Infrastructure as code as a valid concept * Whether network engineers will really use CI/CD pipelines in network automation * How many developer tools or concepts need to be embraced by operations teams * Building a CI/CD tool chain * How to select tools based on your specific requirements * How version testing becomes a welcome safety net instead of a pain-in-the-butt task * Grappling with the cultural and process changes * More Show Links: Carl Moberg on Twitter Kristian Larsson on Twitter Kristian Larsson’s blog “Network Automation ramblings” Robust Network Automation – Kristian Larsson on YouTube Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) – Cisco Systems
