Views: 969For decades, network automation meant converting a human-designed, generally manual, memorized or scripted procedure into a repeatable process. An engineer decided what should happen, defined the required steps, tested the process, and authorized the “automation” to execute those steps. The automation might provision a VLAN, update a routing policy, restart a failed service, backup
Views: 3,266If you are new to Ansible, I suggest you read our article that defines Ansible, and shows you how to set up an Ansible lab environment to test and learn in. You can also read my article on real world use cases for Ansible right here. One of those use cases is Compliance Testing.
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Views: 3,202Ansible is widely used in data networking for automating configuration, management, and compliance across diverse network devices. We published an article on what this tool is, and how you can set up a lab environment for learning this tool that you can read here. Here are real-world examples of Ansible use cases in data
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Views: 4,827As a follow on to my article on whether AI can be used in Networking, this post dives in deeper to a question of will humans still be involved? And if so, how do we upskill that human expertise? To successfully integrate AI into network automation while ensuring human expertise is maintained, organizations and
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Views: 2,480Ansible is an open-source automation tool primarily used for configuration management, application deployment, and task automation. In network automation, Ansible enables IT teams to manage and configure network devices in a consistent, repeatable, and agentless manner. Ansible is a tool used to automate Server provisioning and network provisioning. Ansible is completely free! You can
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