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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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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

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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

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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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