How We Built an Automated Data Center Network in Less Than 6 Months, Interop 2020
Hank Preston, Cisco DevNet
They say timing is everything, and our team knows how true that is. While in the process of deploying NetDevOps and network automation across our existing network, we decided to build a new one - and it had to happen in less than 6 months. Our motto was to, "Innovate up to the point of panic," and we decided to see how much we could transform the architecture and operations for a fully automated network. We'll share how we decided what parts of the network to focus on, approached the challenge of designing both a new architecture, AND automated with new tooling before a single rack was powered up. Spoiler alert, not everything we wanted to do made the cut, and we'll share lessons learned and where we go next. There will be a demo of multi-domain automation spanning networking across networking, compute, virtualization, and security.
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