Practical strategies and techniques for automating network
infrastructure
As networks grow ever more complex, network professionals are seeking to
automate processes for configuration, management, testing, deployment,
and operation. Using automation, they aim to lower expenses, improve
productivity, reduce human error, shorten time to market, and improve
agility. In this guide, expert practitioner Ivo Pinto presents all the
concepts and techniques you'll need to move your entire physical and
virtual infrastructure towards greater automation and maximize the value
it delivers.
Writing for experienced professionals, the author reviews today's
leading use cases for automation, compares leading tools, and presents a
deep dive into using the open source Ansible engine to automate common
tasks. You'll find everything you need: from practical code snippets to
real-world case studies to a complete methodology for planning strategy.
This guide is for everyone seeking to improve network operations and
productivity, including system, network, storage, and virtualization
administrators, network and security engineers, and many other technical
professionals and managers. You can apply its vendor-neutral concepts
throughout your entire environment--from servers to the cloud, switches
to security.
- Explore modern use cases for network automation, and compare today's
most widely used automation tools
- Capture essential data for use in network automation, using standard
formats such as JSON, XML, and YAML
- Get more value from the data your network can provide
- Install Ansible and master its building blocks, including plays,
tasks, modules, variables, conditionals, loops, and roles
- Perform common networking tasks with Ansible playbooks: manage files,
devices, VMs, cloud constructs, APIs, and more
- See how Ansible can be used to automate even the largest global
network architectures
- Discover how NetDevOps can transform your approach to automation--and
create a new NetDevOps pipeline, step by step
- Build a network automation strategy from the ground up, reflecting
lessons from the world's largest enterprises
