DevOps for Networking

Configuration management processes to manage network devices

DevOps is primarily all about people and process, so just focusing on some examples of playbooks or roles in isolation against a switch or firewall wouldn't help network engineer deal with the real-world networking challenges that they encounter every day. Selecting the correct tooling to facilitate processes is also important after the actual goals of a project have been established. Tooling should be selected after the business requirements have been made clear and not the opposite way round.

A network engineer could easily type in those commands into a network operating system as they could type commands into an Ansible playbook, so it is important to look at where the use of a configuration ...