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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

Deploying network changes with deployment pipelines


When carrying out Continuous Delivery or deployment, it is essential to incorporate network changes. Network teams need to contribute major pieces of the deployment pipeline.

As the CD Pipeline scheduler allows different stages to be specified in the deployment pipeline, it gives great flexibility and allows all teams to contribute pieces, forming a true collaborative DevOps model.

Sometimes a concern from network teams is that developers should not have the necessary access to all network devices as they are not experts. Truth be told, developers don't want access to network devices, they instead want a quick way of pushing out their changes where they are not impeded by having to wait on network changes being applied.

Network self-service

Allowing developers the ability to self-service their own network changes is very important, otherwise the network team becomes the bottleneck for the Continuous Delivery process.

So providing development...