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

Chapter 5

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment

In the preceding chapter, we explained the concept of infrastructure as code and how it allows you to describe your infrastructure as a set of organized data and human-readable files that can be managed with version control in a source code manager. With IaC, you now have the tools to automate your network infrastructure at scale; however, IaC also carries with it a new risk. In the legacy operating model, a mistake made when typing in the command-line interface usually impacted only a single node or a handful of nodes in the network, whereas a simple mistake made with IaC could have substantial and wide-ranging impacts to the entire network. The increased scale of automation and IaC can ...