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

# Intended audience
This course is aimed at people who already have an understanding of the fundamentals of networking. 

Here is a breakdown of who could benefit from this course and why:

- Technical leaders who want to raise awareness of new modern methodologies for automating enterprise networks.
- Leaders and influencers in technology who mandate the evolution of network operations.
- Network engineers or administrators who need to learn the conversion of the network to code. 
- Network operators who use the Command-Line Interface (CLI) for changes looking to adopt new skills and execute Ansible playbooks. 
- Novice network administrators who seek to benefit from most entering the industry during the inception of automation, and developing from the ground up.


# Prerequisites and tools
This course does not have any major prerequisites. The technologies used are: 
- Ansible
- Git
- TFS 

You can use any other collaboration tool instead of TFS.

These tools are not very difficult to use and will be covered in the course to the extent that they'll be utilized.


Let's take a look at the intended audience and prerequisites for the course. 

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

Who is This Course for?

Intended audience