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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Getting started with Salt for network automation, using Docker
The easy way
This is going to be a very short blog post, but hopefully it will provide an
easier intro for the (network) engineers that want to get started with Salt
to leverage its superpowers for network automation.
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