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Network automation streamlines management, provisioning, configuration, and monitoring of network devices and services. By automating repetitive tasks and ensuring consistency, it reduces human error, enhances network efficiency and reliability.

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Ansible vs. Terraform in networks: similarities and differences

Discover two powerful network automation tools - Terraform and Ansible. Learn about their differences and similarities. Find out when to use each tool.
Konrad Dąbrowski

Konrad Dąbrowski

on Nov 9, 2023
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Python Nornir for simplifying network automation: code examples

Manual management and configuration can quickly become overwhelming and time-consuming. Whether we talk about deploying configurations, running commands across devices, or collecting and analysing traffic data, there is always a need to automate repetitive tasks, improve network scalability, and enhance overall efficiency. Let’s imagine someone is facing the daunting task of updating login banners on numerous Cisco devices or gathering essential data through a single show command. Many engineers can wonder about the most efficient methods to accomplish these objectives.
Mateusz Dyks

Mateusz Dyks

on Aug 17, 2023
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GitOps vs. DevOps — what is the difference?

The world of software development is constantly evolving, with new approaches and methodologies emerging to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the development process. Two of the most popular methodologies are GitOps and DevOps. While they share some similarities, there are also some key differences between them. DevOps is a methodology that emphasizes collaboration and communication between development and operations teams. The goal is to streamline the development process, reduce time to market, and ensure high-quality software.
Konrad Dąbrowski

Konrad Dąbrowski

on Jul 20, 2023
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GitOps — which tools should you choose?

In today's fast-paced tech landscape, software development teams are constantly seeking new ways to improve efficiency and speed up the release process. GitOps has emerged as a powerful way to streamline the software delivery process. As GitOps tools have quickly become a go-to solution for many organizations, it is essential to research the right tools to meet your project needs and requirements. In this article, you will find an overview of some of the GitOps tools on the market and their key features highlighted.
Damian Parniewicz

Damian Parniewicz

on Jul 3, 2023
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Leveraging OPA and Rego to Automate Compliance in a CI/CD Pipeline

In today's fast-paced software development world, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines are critical for organizations to deliver high-quality software efficiently. However, ensuring compliance with security and regulatory policies can be a challenging and time-consuming process. Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego, a declarative language for policy enforcement, offer a solution to this problem. By leveraging OPA and Rego together, organizations can automate compliance checks within their CI/CD pipelines, reducing the burden on developers and increasing the efficiency of the development process.
Sebastian Czech

Sebastian Czech

on May 25, 2023
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Zero-Touch Provisioning: ZTP guide and example usages

There are countless situations in which a network, be it a service provider, data center, or evenenterprise infrastructure, grows so large that the ability to onboard new devices to that network becomes a huge burden for the network operations team. As time passes, various solutions have been implemented by network and DevOps engineers to mitigate this issue based on open-source and vendor-specific solutions: in-house developed Python/Bash scripts, Ansible playbooks, vendor-specific network orchestrators, etc.
Horia Gunică

Horia Gunică

on Apr 24, 2023
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Policy as code — what is it? Definition and tools

By the time you’ve worked in the IT industry for a couple of years, you are usually familiar with many practices as code, for example, infrastructure as code, configuration as code, and security as code. You may have even met with the expression policy as code. What does it mean? Why should we follow an ‘as code’ approach? You’ll find all the answers in this article. The main idea behind policy as code is using specific language to manage and automate policies. What language can be used for that target?
Sebastian Czech

Sebastian Czech

on Apr 20, 2023
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What is Policy Based Routing (PBR)?

Nowadays, network traffic nature becomes very complicated in terms of the mixture of applications and their connectivity requirements. Achieving these requirements by means of traditional routing mechanisms may become cumbersome or even impossible and requires special dedicated solutions. Additionally, organizations need to focus on operational costs more strictly than in the past. One good direction to achieve this goal is the optimization of resource usage within different domains. Networking is one such domain, where the objective is to rationally maximize the usage of existing infrastructure rather than making an investment in increasing its capacity.
Łukasz Drzewiecki

Łukasz Drzewiecki

on Jan 16, 2023
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Network automation — why does it matter?

Network automation has been with us for a while and its popularity is growing exponentially, but still, there are a lot of companies that are resisting this structural revolution in the network realm. There's a joke from Big Switch Networks, that so far, the biggest shift in the network area was the migration from Telnet to SSH. Times change and the software-defined networks, along with network automation are playing a huge role in the future of many companies. That's why in this article, we would like to shed some light on network automation itself.
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Multiple authors

on Nov 2, 2022
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