ChatOps for Network Automation
summary
Live demos show chatbots on Slack, Microsoft Teams, Webex Teams querying NetBox for racks, circuits and providers, querying Kentik to return a generated top-talkers chart image, and querying inventory to locate an IP with its switch, port and MAC. The bot triggers Ansible Tower/AWX job templates (config backup job id 1043) and runs an end-to-end workflow that adds VLAN 145 named interop on a Jersey City spine, creates and updates a ServiceNow change ticket, performs pre/post checks, and closes the change — all automated and verified in the demos.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to chat ops
- 0:39Defining network chat ops
- 2:36Benefits for operations
- 4:21Network data lookup demo
- 6:24Querying source of truth
- 9:33Flow data visualization
- 11:13Multi-platform chat support
- 13:20Orchestrating ansible jobs
- 17:07End-to-end automation demo
- 21:17Conclusion and Q&A
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