APNIC course on Network Automation
From the very beginning, when I first introduced Salt to the network automation
community, one of my dreams was to create a course.
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A (Proxy) Minion-less Approach to Network Automation using Salt
Extending NAPALM's capabilities in the Salt environment
Python development for infrastructure management using Salt
Having the privilege to maintain one of the widely used tools for network automation, NAPALM, I am often asked various questions, many of them related to the extensibility of the library. It is a given, and a design choice that NAPALM does not and cannot possibly fulfill all the existing...
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Do we really need network automation?
In my mind, especially after seeing how automation massively helped one of the largest global networks (Cloudflare - my current employer), I simply cannot conceive that a network can possibly run reliably without a form of automation. However, there still are plenty of examples of networks running (often with major...
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Network automation using Salt for large scale deployments
Very often I refer to Salt as one of the most suitable tools for managing large scale deployment - either servers or network devices, but not limited to. While on a server one can install the regular Minion directly, and there are already many well known success stories in the...
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