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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

How the Nuage VSP platform can support greenfield and brownfield projects


Overlay networks are typically set up as new network (greenfield) sites, but a completely new network in isolation is not useful, unless there is a planned big bang migration of all applications, which means migrating every application from the legacy network to the new network in a single migration.

If instead a staged application migration is chosen, where only a percentage of applications are migrated to the network, then the new overlay network will need to communicate with the legacy network and be required to operate in a brownfield setup.

A brownfield setup normally means applications are migrated in stages to the new platform, as opposed to all in one go, which builds confidence in the new network and new technology associated with that network. When moving applications to the new platform, it will typically involve performance testing the migrated applications in the new network, prior to throttling live traffic...