Bringing Enterprise Class Automation to Open Networking
Today Puppet Labs announced that Cumulus Networks has joined its Puppet Supported Program. We’re very excited about this and, if you’re implementing a software-defined data center, you should be excited too.
Is it finally possible to manage the data center instead of just managing stacks?
Because Cumulus Linux is Linux, our customers are able to use the same tools they know and love for managing Linux servers to manage their networks. The joint integration work we’ve done means it’s easier than ever for anyone that wants to automate their data center to extend their change management procedures across both servers and switches, unifying data center and network infrastructure under a single dashboard.
Beyond the streamlining of management consoles, this integration brings a host of business benefits to any organization. For example:
- Businesses can more quickly deploy applications with integrated, end-to-end application deployment from provisioning the VM to the full-stack (see the diagram below)
- Unified management and automation significantly reduces human error, meaning more uptime for services and applications
- Support for multiple Puppet masters across dev, test and production assures full visibility of change management
- Integration gives networking teams the ability to contribute to the Puppet code that manages infrastructure configuration