Batfish Part Two – Configuring and Getting Started.
In my last article I covered why you should use Batfish – today I’ll show you how to get started. 1. Dependencies With all of the setup done, let’s get batfish do run some simple tests on our configurations. 2. Setting up …
Batfish – Serious Testing For Network Automation
If you work in network automation you know that changes have to be executed carefully. One of the negative aspects of building an automated system is that your successes are amazing, but your failures are catastrophic, enter Batfish. Consider the following 3 …
The power of your source of truth
One of if not the most important components of network automation is the source of truth ( SoT ). The SoT holds all the configuration data which we use to manage our network. This allows us to generate accurate configurations, documentation, and …
Infrastructure as Code Components
We constantly hear people talking about network automation, now it’s time to understand the most basic components required to create a full IaC ( Infrastructure as code ) pipeline. This article will break down network automation end to end, providing insight into …
