Your Cheese Moved a Long Time Ago
I was recently on a panel at the Event-Driven Automation Meetup at LinkedIn in Sunnyvale, CA, and we all had a really good hour-long conversation about automation. What really made me happy was that nearly the entire conversation focused on bringing the same principles that companies like LinkedIn and Facebook use on their network to smaller organizations, making them practical for more widespread use.
Nina Mushiana of @LinkedIn says "Anything that can be documented should be automated".
— StackStorm (@Stack_Storm) March 31, 2017
Great Auto-Remediation Meetup! pic.twitter.com/l76U1IydjB
One particular topic that came up was one I’ve struggled with for the past few years; What about Day 2 of network automation? So, we manage to write some Ansible playbooks to push configuration files to switches - what’s next? Often this question isn’t asked. I think the network automation conversation has progressed to the point where we should all start asking this question more often.
I believe that the network engineering discipline is at a crossroads, and the workforce as a whole needs to make some changes and decisions in order to stay relevant. Those changes are all based on the following premise:
The value of the network does not Continue reading