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chatOps and automation: a new way of delivering 1st level IT support and Self-Service (part 1)

3rd January 2020 by Adrian Giacometti

This is getting extremely fun. After doing some testing with Ansible and Salt, the new integrant of the Netor family is Slack. Yes, a chat platform, and I am going to show how much this can add to the game. By adding some Python to parse the inputs and outputs from Slack and Ansible, it …

A New horizon: Network Automation and Software Development

22nd December 2019 by Adrian Giacometti

Going into these new topics was one of the best decisions of the last years. It is an exciting and almost uncharted world. There is an ecosystem of applications succeeding in the servers world, while networking is going behind but still very encouraged. It is hard to think about the use cases without the tendency …

Going deeper in Network Automation

20th December 2019 by Adrian Giacometti

Event-Driven Network Automation and Orchestration topics can be addressed with Salt. It is the next step in this Automation revolution, where we are trying to make things faster and smarter. Network Automation at Scale by Mircea Ulinic & Seth House.This is a great book with a lot of examples, in only 95 pages goes through …

Network Automation Starter

19th December 2019 by Adrian Giacometti

Network Programmability and Automation by Jason Edelman, Scott S. Lowe & Matt Oswalt. If you are wondering about what Network Automation really is, and where are we going with this, I highly recommend you to check out this great book. If you don’t have time, at least go through it, it’s easy to read, even …