Model-Driven DevOps: Increasing agility and security in your physical network through DevOps

Chapter 2

A Better Way

Now that you understand some of the challenges that result from operating IT infrastructure with today’s methods, let’s examine a better way. Chapter 1, “A Lightbulb Goes Off,” introduced the notion of using DevOps to operate infrastructure and also examined some of the reasons it is not widely adopted. This chapter begins to lay the technical groundwork for how you can treat your network infrastructure as code and safely harness automation using DevOps.

Every Good Story Has a Hero

It turns out that many IT operations teams have a hero (or heroes). This is the person that everybody goes to when they need something done. Heroes are awesome, but they also typically come with a signature weakness. Unfortunately, IT heroes ...