Jody Lemoine

Do Network Engineers Dream of Software Defined Sheep?

12/04/18 I really want Software Defined Networking (SDN), or something like it, to be the go-to approach for networking, but are we too tied to our idea of what SDN is for us to ge…

One Framework to Rule Them All

11/28/18 The Dream of the Data Center For me, it started with OpenStack. I was at a conference a number of years ago listening to Shannon McFarland talking about using OpenStack to…

The Evolution of Network Operations

11/14/18 When I first began this post, my thinking revolved around the translation problems of a declarative approach to network operation, but having only procedural interfaces to…

Templates vs. Policies

11/09/18 Are configuration templates still needed with an automation framework? Or does the automation policy make them a relic of the past? Traditional Configuration Management: T…

Am I Automating Myself Out of a Job?

10/24/18 Is our contribution measured by what we’re doing or how we’re doing it? Are we providing value or are we just getting caught up in what’s exciting? How do we ensure that w…

Death by a Thousand Cuts – A Driver for Network Automation

10/19/18 At what point does the frequency and volume of “it will only take a second to change” become too much to bear and force us to adopt a network automation strategy? Where is…