Discusses the networking community and how they approach automation - current challenges/opportunities Learn about the "Netdev" Puppet module initiative; a "standard library" of resource types for networking equipment - current and future ideas.
Speaker
Jeremy Schulman
Global Solutions Architect, Infrastructure Automation, Juniper Networks
Jeremy is a 20 year veteran in the networking industry and has been with Juniper Networks for over five year. He holds a BSCS from Georgia Tech and began his career as an embedded software engineer building network infrastructure. After 12 years in software, Jeremy transitioned into a technical sales role as a network solutions architect. In 2012 Jeremy's focus turned exclusively to Infrastructure Automation. Jeremy now directs field awareness and DevOp initiatives integrating Junos with IT automation frameworks. He was responsible for the initial development of Puppet for Junos, and he is the maintainer of the Ruby NETCONF gem.
- By automating common, yet complex tasks, they can reduce or shift the engineer staff required to manage their network. – Complex systems appear fragile when manually operated because humans make mistakes. IT organizations can overcome their fears of network automation by the managing risk in solution development. Today, server and application automation is the standard. Network automation is next.– In many cases the network infrastructure is a "utility" to the applications that run the business. By automating the deployment and lifecycle of networking infrastructure change, the IT organization provides a better value to both internal and external "customers".