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

Preface

The Internet is built on network infrastructure. Many technologies, and by extension many economies and societies, are built on the Internet. Unfortunately, the way organizations deploy and maintain these critical networks has not changed meaningfully in 30 years. Network infrastructure operations is often a very human-intensive and manual process, making it prone to error and slow to react to business needs. The DevOps model promises to dramatically improve infrastructure operations using automation, tools, and processes designed to increase agility, scale, security, compliance, and reliability. Although DevOps has been used to great effect in applications development and management of cloud infrastructure, there has been no comprehensive, ...