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How to Automate Your Network Using DevOps Practices and Infrastructure as Code
Summary
Network operations must adjust to meet new application patterns and delivery methods based on DevOps. This research teaches I&O technical professionals how to use techniques such as infrastructure as code and CI/CD to overcome the technical and nontechnical barriers to effective network automation.
Published: 15 January 2020
ID: G00407239
Analyst(s): Simon Richard , Paul Delory
Table Of Contents
Problem Statement
The Gartner Approach
The Guidance Framework
- Prework: Implement the Continuous Infrastructure Automation Pipeline
- Build Workflow Triggers
- Integrate With Change Management
- Set Up Notification Channels
- Guidance for Implementing the CIA Pipeline
- Establish the Network Source of Truth
- Initialize Your Network Source of Truth
- Enhance Your Network Source of Truth
- Network Source of Truth Guidance
- Build and Deploy Changes
- Select Targets and Use Cases
- Implement Configuration Management With Ansible
- Expand to Other Automation Tools
- Build and Deploy Changes Phase Guidance
- Validate Changes
- Execute Preimplementation Validations
- Execute Postimplementation Validations
- Validation and Test Phase Guidance
- Follow-Up
Risks and Pitfalls
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