Chapter 6: Automating Complex Multi-Vendor Networks with NAPALM
When we consider the landscape of a modern networking infrastructure, one thing quickly becomes apparent: we are almost never dealing with a greenfield deployment. Equipment from different vendors gets upgraded and slotted into continuous cycles. Almost no network is powered purely by the solutions of one vendor, and even if you are doing a completely new greenfield deployment, most companies opt for multi-vendor solutions. However, this poses a problem for our network automation efforts. Without one single vendor to provide the equipment for our infrastructure, we don't have one common operating system running on the devices themselves. Therefore, due to the different operating ...
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