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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

Arguments against software-defined networking


With the emergence of public clouds such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, networking is now being treated more like a commodity and has moved from silicon to software. This has allowed developers the ability to mutate the network to best serve the applications, rather than retrofit applications into an aging network, that is probably not optimized for modern microservice applications.

It would therefore seem nonsensical if any business would want to treat their internal data center networking any differently. However, like all new ideas, before acceptance and adoption comes fear and uncertainty, inherently co-related with the new or different ways of working.

Common arguments against using a clos Leaf-Spine architecture and SDN controllers center around one common theme, that it requires change and change is hard. We then harp back to the mythical 8th layer of the OSI model, and that is the User layer:

The network operators have to feel...