Powering Your Automation: A Single Source of Truth
Powering Your Automation: A Single Source of Truth Introduction - How we define automation - Automation vs Orchestration Automation Overview - Ansible, Salt, Puppe …
| Talk Title | Powering Your Automation: A Single Source of Truth |
| Speakers | Tim Schreyack, Dell Networking |
| Conference | NANOG77 |
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| Location | Austin, TX |
| Date | Oct 28 2019 - Oct 30 2019 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
| Video | Talk Video |
Powering Your Automation: A Single Source of Truth Introduction
- How we define automation
- Automation vs Orchestration Automation Overview
- Ansible, Salt, Puppet
- Template based configs
- Git and peer review process Single Source of Truth
- Automation depends on inputs and assignment of resources
- How do we populate and maintain those inputs
- Single Source of Truth DB DB Data Structure
- Physical and virtual devices
- Links
- IPAM
- Logical and physical resource pools
- Rich connections between all items in the DB allows for easy data retrieval Accessing data from the DB in your templates
- Small code modules to use in templates (python,ruby, etc…)
- Example python code for Ansible Demo
- Run small demo of using Ansible and .j2 template to create and deploy device configuration for two different switches
