Our Journey to a self-healing network
summary
Red Hat IT moves from golden configs and copy/paste to a code-defined network using Ansible and an abstraction layer, delivering a working pipeline in under 12 months that pushes Jinja2 templates via dynamic inventory and a console server. The demo deploys a DC-like fabric of six devices in about six minutes and auto-registers them with monitoring (Kapacitor/Telegraf), but the final link—alert→Ansible Tower automated remediation—is not yet active. Key tools: Ansible Tower, dynamic inventory, 6 devices deployed in ~6 minutes.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:12Agenda
- 1:54Milestones
- 2:42Manual deployment
- 10:18Current status
- 10:57Vendors
- 15:20Network Automation
- 18:07Demo
- 37:06QA
- 39:46Team
- 41:21People
- 42:41BGP
- 43:26What we are using
- 45:26Alerts
- 47:36Example
- 48:56Dynamic Inventory
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