Gain insights into automating network reconnaissance, orchestrating repetitive changes, and transforming network configuration management. Discover CI/CD pipeline migration for full network automation.

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​​Network automation begins with automating network reconnaissance. This is accomplished by gathering important information from network devices while building a library of dynamic on-demand utilities and generating living documentation. Starting small, the course exhibits the simplicity and elegance of network automation.

Next, you will learn how to automate larger changes that require a high number of repetitive steps. These changes will be executed serially in a specific orchestrated order, making them perfect for an automated solution. After gaining comfort with the new tools, you can fully transform network configuration management to an automated, intent-based, self-documenting system.

The final step is learning how to migrate to a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline, thereby fully automating the network.

Automate Your Network

# The importance of automation
The time for change has arrived. Enterprise networks have outgrown and outpaced organizations' abilities to effectively manage themselves using traditional tools. Historically, network management was manually gathering point-in-time information, from or making configuration changes to individual devices. 

Networks are often designed using a configuration command-driven approach, as opposed to a data-driven approach. Staff manually execute commands at the CLI to gather information or perform changes. They often regather information to confirm the state of the network after changes are made. 

The ongoing creation and maintenance of network documentation is also performed manually. Hours of effort are required to make changes, often involving the repetition of the same commands on different devices. Inevitably, troubleshooting is necessary because of errors made using the manual methodology. Network automation solves all these problems. 


Let's get a quick overview of why you should perform network automation.

Introduction

What Is Network Automation?

Why Automate the Network?

How to Automate the Network

Where to Start with Network Automation

Repository Structure

Network Reconnaissance

Tactical Playbooks

Data Models and Dynamic Templates

Dynamic Intent-Based Documentation

Configuration Management

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery

Conclusion

Introduction

The importance of automation