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Stories about using automated workflows in the world of Network Engineering.

How to sanitise a Cisco IOS configurations?

Cisco IOS configurations are text files, including the configuration data of devices. It also includes sensitive information, such as Passwords, IP addresses, pre-shared keys and other type of keys. In different situations we need to share the configuration with others, so they can understand the solution and/or use configuration

Network Automation

NetDevOps Survey

To start a survey about the network automation industry to help bring clarity to operations people are automating the most/least, or even how long it is taking on average to learn network automation.

Network Automation

Network Designers in the era of NetDevOps

It is not easy to define what DevOps and NetDevOps means for network designers. Designers developing solutions, and driving discussions with customers They not writing code normally, and not interacting with APIs. However network services will be more and more software driven, and this also changes how we design networks.

Network Automation

Cisco Configuration Anonymizer

Netconan is an interesting Github [https://github.com/Intentionet/netconan] project to remove sensitive information from Network configuration files. This is particularly useful in managed SP environment where we share configurations with the end-customer, usually in form of an LLD or SLD. Netconan can anonymize many types of sensitive information:

Network Automation

On-demand GNS3-Server automation using Packet

GNS3 was extensively developed in the past years. It is good that the Client and Server functions are decoupled, so we can use the GUI but still run the simulation on cloud resources. For this kind of virtualization bare metal service required as GNS3 using KVM/QEMU, and most cloud