Heavy Networking 581: How Gluware Lab Brings DevOps To NetOps (Sponsored)

You can roll your own network automation: some Ansible, some Python, a little digging into vendor APIs. Add a lot of persistence and a human or two that commit themselves to making your homegrown network automation work…and hey, maybe you’ve got something. Or maybe you end up with a fragmented set of tools and a motley collection of scripts and playbooks that help save some time and reduce error count, but it’s not a system. A better approach may be an integrated network automation system that works with other infrastructure tools in your org that lets you apply a DevOps workflow to network device management. You’ll also want version control, golden configs, a review process, and so on. On today’s episode, we get practical with infrastructure-as-code, talking with our sponsor Gluware about how their users have integrated network automation into their IT practices. That includes a full-on integration with a manager-of-managers, where you don’t even have to interact with the Gluware UI. You can just use the GluAPI and simply call on Gluware to program the network to do what’s needed in the context of a larger IT function. We also get into a new product called Gluware Lab. Our Gluware guests are Olivier Huynh Van, Chief Science Officer and Co-Founder; and Michael Haugh, VP of Product Marketing. Show Links: Gluware.com/packetpushers Gluware Lab Request Gluware Pro Device Manager app for free @gluwareinc – Gluware on Twitter Gluware on LinkedIn Gluware on Facebook