Solving Operational Challenges with Network Automation

Season 2, Talk 3 of NetDevOps Live! looks at how network automation can be added to operational tasks and work through a practical demonstration walkthrough.
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Presenter: Stuart Clark   / bigevilbeard  

Topics Covered - Time Links
- A bit about Stuart's Background 1:26
- Agenda 2:35
- Does your job make you dumber? 5:16
- What types of tasks to solve 6:33
- Why? 8:18
- Network Operations Tasks to Solve 13:24
- Challenge of the day job 16:22
- What to Automate 17:35
- Standard Operational Workflows 20:22
- Put concept into practice with Demo! 22:39
- Starting with RESTCONF in Postman 23:51
- Moving to Python Scripts 25:30
- Creating a library of scripts 29:00
- BGP Script example 29:20
- The value of processing data 30:27
- Script sprawl... 31:57
- Demo Part 2 - A better approach 32:56
- A bit on Object Oriented Programming 33:13
- Error checking strategy 33:51
- Exploring OOP code 35:12
- Adding "get_bgp" feature 36:46
- Script in action 38:03
- Operational Tools with Python Click 40:03
- Help features 41:57
- Adding options 43:05
- Adding commands 44:!5
- Using the tool 47:35
- Final thoughts on demo 49:54
- Summing Up 50:44
- Webinar Resources 52:51
- Code Exchange Challenge 53:38
- Contact Info 54:20
- Closing Thoughts 54:45

Episode Description:
There is more to network automation than pushing out configuration snippets. Network automation skills can help solve day to day operational challenges too. Gathering usage details and statistics from every device in your network. Verifing that some key configuraiton bit is correct across the network. Helping make troubleshooting easier, faster, and more consistent.

In this talk we'll explore these ideas and more, as well as provide a handful of code examples you can use and build from yourself!

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