Late last year Adam Angell shared a very thought provoking observation on the Network Automation Forum Slack channel, part rant, part shared experience, part lament. I want to quote a statement he makes that really struck me like a "Gibbs head slap". For me it seems easier to go from a Software dev(eloper) to come READ MORE
What is Network Automation?
Ever since AutoCon1, I’ve been trying to define Network Automation, at least in my own mind. The thinking is, we need to define terms before we can tackle solutions. That was made clear today on the first day of AutoCon2 so what better time to put down some thoughts. It occurred to me that NAF READ MORE
Thinking about Network Automation after AutoCon1
I love Space! (BTW..guess what happened 55 years ago Saturday!) Imagine my delight at the synchronicity of finding Joseph Klibansky’s The Thinker. when walking around Rembrandt Square in Amsterdam on the last day of NAF’s AutoCon1 Conference. Space and one of my favorite sculptures all rolled into one at the end of a conference that READ MORE
La Corrida de Torero – torero in client/server mode
Con el protocolo de inauguración comenzó oficialmente el Carnaval Autlán 2024 We first took a look at torero in "standalone" or local mode. In this mode, torero helps you execute scripts from your repository as "services". This includes automatically building the required environment so all those steps to clone or update both your repository and READ MORE
Torero – Boots on the Ground Framework for Automation Sharing
Background One of the many useful things I came away with from AutoCon1 in Amsterdam was a "to-do" to investigate torero. Launched by Itential at NAF’s AutoCon1 as a community based product and presented to the AutoCon community by Peter Sprygada in Amsterdam, one has to take notice and I did. You can see Mr. READ MORE
No Rest for SuzieQ
To be clear, it is true that SuzieQ never rests but it is also true that SuzieQ always RESTS, that is, the SuzieQ REST API is available to answer your network questions and help automate your network workflows. In my previous post about SuzieQ we focused on getting started and asking questions about our network READ MORE
Network Automation is not an Effortless Spacewalk
NASA Images Photo by Astronaut Tom Stafford Recent events have shown us that successfully landing on the moon is anything but routine and no easy feat. Somehow it seems we are surprised. Thats puzzling. I recently read The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America’s Race in Space by Eugene Cernan and READ MORE
Kill the CLI
As the conversation about Network Automation flows around us, this topic seems to be getting some traction (and quite a reaction!). Have you disabled the CLI? Should we disable the CLI? How long before the CLI is disabled? I don’t believe those are the question we should be asking but it made me examine why READ MORE
The First Ever Network Automation Conference – AutoCon0
First let me just say that you have got to love a zero indexed conference! If you are a network engineer and you don’t know what that means we need to chat..and that situation was a key topic of the conference. In my mind the goal of the conference was to assess the state of READ MORE
Whoop Dee Doo for my SuzieQ!
or How I Gained Fabric Like Visibility on a Campus Network Without Any Upgrades Last Updated: 2025-01-03 The network automation landscape moves fast and there is always something you come across which sparks your interest, but sometimes all you can do is it make note of it and hope you have time later on to READ MORE