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[safnog] Network Automation



On 3 May 2016, at 15:25, Nishal Goburdhan <nishal at controlfreak.co.za> wrote:

> On 3 May 2016, at 20:44, Noah wrote:
> 
>> What opensource tools are folks outhere using for network operation
>> automation and to be be specific, bulk configurations, automated software
>> upgrades of say a good number of network gears etc...
> 
> i use puppet to semi-automate management and maintenance of a good few (70+) linux hosts.  if i knew more about puppet, that could probably read ?fully-automate?, but that?s my failing, not the system ..

You can also go old-school if you don't mind hacking things together on the shell:

  https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog26/presentations/stephen.pdf

For a more modern CI/CD approach, Carlos Vicente (who some of you might well have met in workshops; he also wrote NetDot) has been doing this at Dyn:

  https://www.nanog.org/sites/default/files/monday_general_autobuild_vicente_63.28.pdf
  http://youtu.be/OWLTBYgPp0A?list=PLO8DR5ZGla8hhQXL_9_IRcw4HA9yu3JEC


Joe
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