NetDevOps CICD Pipelines Can Develop, Test, and Deploy Network Configurations

Season 1, Talk 2 of NetDevOps Live! looks at the future of network configuration when you combine CICD with the network. Full details at http://bit.ly/2xsnhkZ

Presenter: Hank Preston   / hfpreston  

Topics Covered - Time Links
- Introduction
- Today's Network Configuration Pipelines 1:50
- NetDevOps CICD Pipelines in Concept 6:22
- Software Pipelines pre-DevOps and CICD 6:54
- DevOps and the need for CICD in Software 9:23
- Applying CICD to Networking 10:59
- The NetDevOps Toolbag 12:24
- NetDevOps CICD in Action (Demo) 16:47
- Issue Review and Acceptance 17:21
- Local Development and Testing 18:21
- Make and Makefile usage 18:54
- Development Environment with netsim 19:11
- Updating the "Network as Code" Configuration 22:04
- Testing changes in "dev" 24:30
- Committing changes to GitLab with git 25:40
- Monitoring the proposed branch build 26:59
- Merging changes into Test 27:35
- Execution of Full Test Phase Pipeline 27:53
- Merging from Test into Production 32:30
- Verifying Production changes with CLI 35:32
- Summary
- Reviewing the Demo 37:28
- NetDevOps Value Proposition 39:56
- NetDevOps Toolbag and Cisco Solutions 41:19
- Webinar Resources 44:15
- Code Exchange Challenge 47:11
- Contact Info 48:31

Episode Description:
Continuous Development, or CICD, is all the rage in the software development space because of its ability to allow rapid development, testing and deployment of new applications and features. Traditionally the Networking Configuration pipeline is anything but automated or 'continuous'. It is a complex maze of forks, bends, off shoots, dead ends, and paths that require special timing, keys, and phases of the moon. The current network configuration pipeline needs to go, and be completely replaced in NetDevOps. Proposed network changes will be picked up by build servers which manage the progression from 'Development' to 'Test' and into 'Production'. There is much needed to make this dream a reality, but we can get started today. In this session learn how available tools can be leveraged to begin building a NetDevOps CICD Pipeline today!

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