Network Automation Summit at Interop 2020
2020-10-05..2020-10-06
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome & State of Network Automation | Jason Edelman | 31m |
Network automation adoption accelerates, with Network to Code nearly doubling headcount and the field shifting to automation-first platforms that prioritize… | ||
| Riot Direct Network - Our infrastructure as Code Journey | Jaime Botello | 31m |
Riot Direct codifies device configs as YAML in GitHub, uses Jenkins CI to run Nornir/Napalm-style deploys and Capirca for ACLs, and enforces a master branch =… | ||
| Network Automation Architecture: Platform vs Power Tools | Damien Garros | 31m |
Advises replacing brittle one-off scripts with an ensemble platform: a federated NetBox + Infoblox + ServiceNow + YAML source-of-truth, an automation engine… | ||
| Why Ansible vs. Salt vs. Nornir is the Wrong Question to be Asking | Ken Celenza | 13m |
Argues that picking between Ansible, Salt, Nornir (or Terraform or custom code) is the wrong question and instead scores platforms against concrete… | ||
| Network Automation Tools & Technology | Cristian Sirbu | 25m |
Fast-paced catalog of concrete workflows: Ansible + Jinja templates generate device configs, Git-backed CI validates templates and runs linting, and NetBox as… | ||
| Introduction to Ansible for Network Automation | Hector Isaza | 30m |
Shows working Ansible playbooks that back up configs from Cisco, Juniper, Arista and VMware devices, generate per‑device Markdown reports and auto‑configure… | ||
| Introduction to Python Network Libraries (Netmiko, NAPALM, Nornir, and More) | Kirk Byers | 25m |
Overview of practical use: Netmiko provides device CLI access over SSH telnet serial, with bindings to ntc_templates/TextFSM and Genie to return structured… | ||
| Understanding CI/CD in Networking Context | Josh VanDeraa | 28m |
Explains how to add CI/CD to network automation by showing runnable examples: linting with pylint, bandit, black, ansible-lint, unit and functional testing… | ||
| Introduction to Source of Truth & NetBox | Jeremy Stretch | 28m |
NetBox is an open‑source source of truth for network infrastructure that models racks, devices, interfaces, IP prefixes, VRFs and VLANs and ships with a REST… | ||
| Deep Dive on Ansible Collections for Network Automation | Ganesh B. Nalawade | 29m |
Step‑by‑step guide to create a new collection for network automation, including the repository layout, examples of modules and roles to package, and how to… | ||
| Nornir: Solve Big Problems Fast | Brett Lykins | 25m |
Nornir is a pure‑Python, agentless automation framework that runs tasks (Python functions) against an inventory; it has ~35 contributors and ~644 GitHub stars… | ||
| Network as Code | Federico Olivieri | 27m |
Ticketmaster applies GitLab CI + AWX (Ansible Tower) to push YAML variables into Jinja templates, rendering vendor‑agnostic configs and enforcing PCI hardening… | ||
| Test Automation in a Networking World | Nick Keating, Chi Sherriff | 28m |
Telstra builds a test automation framework over three years for a large multi‑vendor lab, using a per‑test-case source of truth derived from an inventory… | ||
| Network Data Analysis With Elastic Stack | Eric Chou | 24m |
Shows a concrete pipeline: syslog and NetFlow from a three-node IOS/NX‑OS lab ship into Logstash (UDP port 514), get normalized into Elasticsearch, and Kibana… | ||
| Engaging People & Process Around Enterprise Adoption for Network Automation | Bryan Culver | 24m |
Enterprise adoption is harder at scale because teams are split, processes are codified for compliance, and changes require dozens of downstream updates, but… | ||
| Can Big Data and Machine Learning Really Improve Network Operations? | Srividya Iyer | 24m |
A practical roadmap for adding analytics to operations: segment the problem (for example start with DNS logs or three DNS servers), collect passive data types… | ||
| How We Built an Automated Data Center Network in Less Than 6 Months | Hank Preston | 30m |
Automated a colo data center (USW1) in under six months by modeling and validating designs for three months then racking and deploying in 2.5 months. Uses… | ||
| Automating Networks Using Salt, Without Running Proxy Minions | Mircea Ulinic | 29m |
Shows how Salt SProxy lets Salt control network gear without installing minions by running proxy minions that act as intermediaries, keeping Salt’s REST API… | ||
| Testing Your Python Code | Xenia Mountrouidou | 24m |
Shows concrete unit and integration examples that run without hardware: a regex validator for router names, a mocked netmiko SSH connector that asserts connect… | ||
| Introduction to Batfish for Automated Network Testing & Verification | Mikhail Yohman | 22m |
Demonstrates using Batfish plus Ansible templates and Docker to run offline config analysis inside a Travis CI pipeline: snapshots of configs, interfaces and… | ||
| Getting Started With pyATs | Claudia de Luna | 28m |
pyATS provides a Python framework that parses live device output into structured ops data, baselines state and diffs before/after snapshots so you can detect… | ||
| Extract the Source of Truth (SoT) From Your Network With the Network Importer | Damien Garros | 25m |
network-importer is an open source Python CLI and library that extracts a network-based Source of Truth, calculates a per-attribute diff against NetBox, and… | ||
| Molecule for Testing Network Automation Ansible Projects | David Flores | 27m |
Molecule runs Ansible playbooks against ephemeral targets: this demo boots a Cisco IOS container as a mock router, uses the delegated driver to SSH into it… | ||
| NetBox Custom Scripts & Plugins | John Anderson | 29m |
NetBox runs Python custom scripts as web forms or via the REST API to perform repeatable business logic, with logging, optional CSV output and a built‑in dry… | ||
| Next-Generation Network as Code | Ken Celenza, Timothy Sehn | 27m |
Shows a working pipeline that turns NetBox/Postgres into a versioned, queriable database using Dolt (git for MySQL), DoltHub and Jenkins CI. Demo creates… | ||
| Validating Network High Availability With Batfish | Rick Donato | 30m |
Uses Batfish snapshot forking and differential reachability against a containerized Batfish model of a three‑tier, multi‑vendor network (Arista, Cisco… | ||
| Open Source vs. Commercial Tools Panel | Terry Slattery, Samir Parikh, Michael Haugh, Brad Thornton, Daren Fulwell | 30m |
Panel compares real tradeoffs: total cost of ownership includes staff time to build and maintain vs vendor support, Ansible and YAML/Jinja/Python plus REST… | ||
| Enterprise Transformation With Network Automation Panel | Troy Whitney, Aryo Kresnadi, Jay Moran, Matt Elphick | 31m |
Panelists describe building a centralized source of truth (CMDB-style) and a cloud dojo to train teams, moving from ad-hoc Perl/Python scripts to API-first… | ||
| Keys to Success for Enterprise Network Automation | Jason Edelman | 32m |
Claims that over over 90% manual today of network changes are human-driven and that success starts by documenting workflows and data not buying tools… | ||
| ChatOps for Network Automation | Tim Schreyack | 22m |
Live demos show chatbots on Slack, Microsoft Teams, Webex Teams querying NetBox for racks, circuits and providers, querying Kentik to return a generated… | ||
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