Name: Automate Your Network
Author: John Capobianco

​​Network automation begins with automating network reconnaissance. This is accomplished by gathering important information from network devices while building a library of dynamic on-demand utilities and generating living documentation. Starting small, the course exhibits the simplicity and elegance of network automation.

Next, you will learn how to automate larger changes that require a high number of repetitive steps. These changes will be executed serially in a specific orchestrated order, making them perfect for an automated solution. After gaining comfort with the new tools, you can fully transform network configuration management to an automated, intent-based, self-documenting system.

The final step is learning how to migrate to a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline, thereby fully automating the network.

Automate Your Network

Who is This Course for?

Introduction

Introductory Note

Traditional Legacy Network Management

Operational Challenges

Software-Defined Networking

Network Automation

Process of Network Automation

The Risks of Automation

Configuration Changes

Some Final Steps

Impact on IT

NetDevOps

Converting Configurations to Code

Data Models

Templates

Methodology

Network Development Lifecycle (NDLC)

Ansible: Tools and Features

Ansible Tower

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery
(CI/CD)

Summary

Quiz 1

What Is Network Automation?

Scale of Networks

Complexity and Documentation

Standards

Security, Agility, Design, and Deployment

Operations, Intentions, and Source of Truth

Management Change and Problem Resolution

Resources, Costs, and Provisioning

Source and Version Control

Quiz 2

Why Automate the Network?

How to Prepare the Network

What Tools are Required

Automation Tools: Git

Automation Tools: Linux

Automation Tools: Ansible

Modern Network Development Life Cycle (NDLC)

Quiz 3

How to Automate the Network

Starting Automation

Network Automation Readiness Evaluation

Processes and NDLC

Training and Transition

Create Ansible Inventory File

Network Reconnaissance

Configuration Management

Data Model Structure

Starting Small

Quiz 4

Where to Start with Network Automation

Organization of the Repository

Configuration and Documentation

Vars and Playbooks

Tasks

Templates and Hosts file

Interacting with a Real Repository

Repository Structure

Gathering Information

Information Gathering: Continued

Hands-On: Information Gathering

Hands-On: Important Facts

Hands-On: Display FRR facts

Quiz 5

Moving Towards Automated Changes

Process

OSPF Point-to-Point

Tactical Playbooks

Data Models: Group Variables

Data Models: Host Variables

Basic Programmatic Logic

Recommended Practices

Configuration Templates

Quiz 6

Data Models and Dynamic Templates

Dynamic Documentation and the Markdown Format

Assemble

Execute Playbook: Documentation

Hands-On: Save FRR Configuration

Hands-On: Documentation in MD

Hands-On: Documentation in CSV and HTML

Dynamic Intent-Based Documentation

Starting Configuration

Campus Configuration

Campus Configuration: Assembled

What to Automate Next

Quiz 7

Overview of CI/CD

Continuous Integration

Continuous Delivery

Quiz 8

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery

Wrap up

Conclusion

Automate Your Network

Join 450,000 learners from companies like

Teams of every size choose
Educative for Business
to train, upskill & onboard their developers

Automate Your Network

Join 450,000 learners from companies like

Teams of every size choose Educative for Business to train, upskill & onboard their developers

Teams of every size choose
Educative for Business
to train, upskill & onboard their developers