Why Your Infrastructure Sucks For Automation
12/20/18 Having convinced myself in previous posts that my automation projects will never be finished and that I will forever be supporting 101 different device connection paradigm…
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John Herbert
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All I Want For Christmas Is … RESTCONF?
12/13/18 As somebody not lucky enough to have a nice clicky interface with which to manage and automate all my equipment, I have to develop my own tools to do so. One aspect of dev…
Automating the Automators
11/30/18 I’ve heard repeatedly from people in this industry that what we need is a single interface to our infrastructure. For status monitoring, perhaps that’s best represented by…
Silo-Busting and Dream-Dashing; More Fun With Automation
11/16/18 With the popularity of Agile methodologies and the ubiquity of people claiming they were embracing NetOps/DevOps, I could swear we were supposed to have adopted a new silo…
Automation Paralysis: Why We Get Stuck Automating The Small Stuff
11/02/18 Despite all the talk of all our jobs being replaced by automation, my experience is that the majority of enterprises are still very much employing engineers to design, bui…
Where Is Your Configuration Source of Truth?
10/25/18 Ask a good server engineer where their server configuration is defined and the answer will likely be something similar to In my Puppet manifests. Ask a network administrat…
Configuring and Monitoring the Next Gen Network
12/08/15 In Intent-Based Networking – A Must for SDN, an article published on this site, Faisal Khan makes the very valid point that “SDN is about making networking more flexible a…
The Five Commandments of Tomorrow’s Network
11/10/15 Recently, I’ve been giving some thought to the roadblocks I discover when I attempt network automation and orchestration, and how those roadblocks affect the software-defi…
Looking Backward to Look Forward
10/15/15 “Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past” -unspecified “wise men” quoted by Niccolò Machiavelli With so many articles out there telling me how SDN will …