11 September 2018
Edinburgh International Conference Centre
Europe/London timezone

NetDevOps Configuration Management

11 Sept 2018, 11:50
30m
Lomond Suite (Edinburgh International Conference Centre)

Lomond Suite

Edinburgh International Conference Centre

The Exchange Edinburgh 150 Morrison Street Edinburgh EH3 8EE
Main Session

Speaker

Mr Stuart Clark (Cisco Systems)

Description

Configuration management is not just about backing up configs into source control. Leveraging tools like Ansible, Salt, Chef or Puppet allow you to interact with the configuration of network devices via abstraction and automated framework to save us from the pitfalls of "Finger Defined Networking". Scripts are a great first step to automation, but they require maintenance and strong programming skills. Configuration Management leverages scripts that are maintained by the community of vendors and OpenSource. With them you provide the configuration intent in a simple and consistent fashion, and the details of implementation are handled by the tooling. In this session we will explore how the same tools system admins are using to manage servers, cloud and applications can be leveraged in the network to foster a DevOps culture across silos in the organization.
Talk Duration 30 minutes
May we live webcast the talk?<br />(recordings will be available publicly online) Yes
May we publish the slides on our website? Yes
Your consent for us to publish your name and<br />affiliation as a Speaker on the UKNOF41 website Yes

Primary author

Mr Stuart Clark (Cisco Systems)

Presentation materials