CICD For Network Operations (Carl Niger)

Have you ever written up a complex network change in a text editor, tested it as best you could in a lab before executing it during a middle of the night maintenance window? Have you ever thought that there must be a better way to be sure what you’re doing isn’t going to blow up the production network?

In this 45+ minute discussion, Carl Niger covers the big ideas behind continuous integration / continuous deployment (CICD), and applies CICD to network operations. This is not an easy transition for most shops to make, which Carl also reviews.

The session concludes with a discussion of why CICD is useful to adopt, and just what you’re in for as a netops team if you go the CICD direction.