NetDevOps Style Configuration Management for the Network

Configuration management is not just about backing up configs into source control. The goal is to interact with network devices via abstraction and automated framework and avoid the pitfalls of "Finger Defined Networking."

Cisco Live Barcelona 2019 - DEVNET 1616
Stuart Clark

[eddurguti]

This is great as a concept, I just don't see this running in production.

[nicolasbassano]

Are guys planning on releasing more videos from Barcelona 2019?

[RJOVenturesInc]

Good presentation Stuart Clark/Cisco DevNet on Configuration Management for the Network :-)

- richardjohn786

[gersonkazumi]

Network automation with tools like ansible or python network libraries like napalm is impossible in practice. What works right now is make your python script to screen scrap and regex what you want out of it. As it is network automation still is super hard.