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DevOps for Networking

By : Steven Armstrong
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DevOps for Networking

By: Steven Armstrong

Overview of this book

Frustrated that your company’s network changes are still a manual set of activities that slow developers down? It doesn’t need to be that way any longer, as this book will help your company and network teams embrace DevOps and continuous delivery approaches, enabling them to automate all network functions. This book aims to show readers network automation processes they could implement in their organizations. It will teach you the fundamentals of DevOps in networking and how to improve DevOps processes and workflows by providing automation in your network. You will be exposed to various networking strategies that are stopping your organization from scaling new projects quickly. You will see how SDN and APIs are influencing DevOps transformations, which will in turn help you improve the scalability and efficiency of your organizations networks operations. You will also find out how to leverage various configuration management tools such as Ansible, to automate your network. The book will also look at containers and the impact they are having on networking as well as looking at how automation impacts network security in a software-defined network.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
DevOps for Networking
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Popular load balancing solutions


As applications have moved from monoliths to microservices, load balancing requirements have undoubtedly changed. Today, we have seen a move towards open source load balancing solutions, which are tightly integrated with virtual machines and containers to serve east to west traffic between VPC in AWS or a tenant network in OpenStack as opposed to pinning out to centralized physical appliances.

Open source load balancing solutions are now available from Nginx and HAProxy to help developers load balance their applications or AWS elastic load balancing feature:

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Just a few years ago, Citrix NetScalers (https://www.citrix.com/products/netscaler-adc/) and F5 Big-IP (https://f5.com/products/big-ip) solutions had the monopoly in the enterprise load balancing space, but the load balancing landscape has changed significantly with a multitude of new solutions available.

New load balancing start-ups such as Avi networks (https...