Data-driven network automation architecture
Over the last few years, the industry has been taken by storm with engineers learning network automation through Python, Ansible, and a number of other open source and commercial products. This is undoubtedly great for the industry. After all, network automation is the future, but it leaves many organizations short on how to get there. Based on Network to Code’s extensive experience in this space, one of the largest skill gaps we see in the market today is an understanding of network automation architecture. Through these last few years working with customers from around the world, we’ve been able to build a network automation architecture that depicts and highlights the major components of network automation, the role they play, and how they can work together.
The following is a high-level visualization of this architecture:
Figure 12.1 – Reference network automation architecture
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