Are Traditional Networking Jobs No More?
Jun 16, 20266m
Yeah, I think network automation is now just part of being a network administrator.
Hosted by Tony Bourke · EN · 50 episodes
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This is a (probably) limited series where Tony Bourke, a networking instructor (Arista, Cisco, etc.) talks in a vendor-neutral way about the process of network automation, the basic concepts, and where everything falls into place.
Tony Bourke hosts The Network Automation Journey, a technology show with 50 episodes published.
Yeah, I think network automation is now just part of being a network administrator.
In this episode I talk about the concept of a tenant as it relates to network automation (and networking in general).
You're slammed, tickets piling up, deadlines slipping, you're barely keeping your head above water. And some Youtubers are telling you that you should automate? In this economy? I talk about the genuine issue of finding
What would a replacement for Ansible look like? What do we want in a network automation platform that would replace Ansible?
In this episode I talk about the lack of commit/confirm in many of the NOS modules.
It's easy to be overwhelmed and see all these network automation tools and wonder... what is even the goal? The tools are there to help us achieve our goals, they're not the goal themselves and I talk about how you can p
In this episode I talk about my preference for generating a new config and replacing the entirety of the old config, every time, much like the Genesis Torpedo from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Adding things is easy,
I don't like YANG for configuring devices (and I'm going to tell you allll about it).
More meetings, more committees, more reviews isn't going to deliver more reliable network changes. While a formalized process and policies for network changes is important, you hit a point of very diminishing returns: Do
Today's topic is how automation has made choosing things like routing protocols very different than they were maybe 10 years ago.
In this episode I warn people about issues that have cropped up with the network automation modules/collections/roles that got broken with the new versions of Ansible (Ansible Community 12/Ansible-core 2.19)
In this longer episode, I share my thoughts on the term "Software Defined Networking" (SDN) and why it should be retired as a term.
In this episode, I talk of my love for YAML as a tool for network automation.
Here I talk about declarative vs imperative approaches to network automation.
In this episode I talk about my thoughts on using OpenConfig versus managing the device in a more native way.
In this episode I talk about the pitfall of throwing too many new things at once to someone who's just learning network automation. Keeping it simple and using a layered approach is what I've found to be the best way to
In the software development world, they have a concept called "test driven development", whereby code is tested (unit tests, integration tests) before committing to the main branch and before deployment. We can take that
What place does AI or Machine Learning have in network automation today, or even network operations in general? Writing Python scripts, playbooks, etc. Not much more. At least for now.
In this episode, I talk about what CI/CD is for networking automation as well as the general idea for what is in the developer world. And more importantly, I talk about how most organizations probably don't need full CI/
There's marketing terms, and then there's words that accurately describe a new way of doing things. Cloud computing was one of these terms, and now "Network as Code", "Network Automation", or the older "Software Defined
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