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

# Summary
Automation can lead to numerous benefits, but also comes with some risk. Thankfully, we can mitigate most serious risks by adopting a CI/CD NDLC, slowly progressing and evolving with network reconnaissance, making incremental changes to the network, and embracing full configuration management.

 
The organization will notice an immediate impact in a variety of ways, as its network administration moves towards an automated CI/CD NDLC pipeline. The biggest advantages are agility in problem detection, speed in developing solutions, and the removal of network bottlenecks. The benefit of these advantages is too great to be fully quantified.

While there will always be risks involved in operating a network enterprise, automating these solutions adds no more inherent risk than manual input. In fact, it makes the system more precise through the elimination of manual errors. 

The dawn of a new age in modern network administration and management has arrived in the form of network automation. Soon, there will be no other way to design or operate an enterprise network. Enterprises that have embraced and maximized the potential of network automation using an NDLC have a clear competitive advantage.
 

# Note from the author
Congratulations on the completion of this course! It has been a long journey, but you made it to the end. Hopefully, it has been a fruitful experience, and that we have met your expectations.

I wish you luck and success on your journey towards network automation. I hope this course provides you with the tools, methodology, and information required to get started.

> Thank you for being part of the **Educative** learning community!

Let's conclude the course with a summary and a final note.

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

Wrap up

Summary