Operations, Intentions, and Source of Truth

Operations

NetDevOps will dramatically change network operations’ role in the organization. A library of canned, automated, Ansible playbooks develops over time. Automated builds and deployments will trigger whenever approved changes are merged into the repository. Operations are often tasked with running the network day-to-day, and incorporating and deploying the changes coming from projects or network engineers. Operations will now learn to develop and use code.

If the deployment, network reconnaissance, and documentation aspects of operations are automated, the operations team can focus on the day-to-day aspects of the network management alongside the new automated tools that gather the information needed to run the network. With that said, ...