Network configuration management (NCM) is the process of organizing and maintaining information about all the components in a computer network. When a network needs repair, modification, expansion or ...

A template is a script or instruction written as a guide people can follow. In network automation, templates can enable network configurations to consistently, efficiently and automatically generate ...

In my conversations with customers and partners, there are two topics that are different but somewhat related: compliance and device configuration management. In my latest blog, “Compliant or not?

The definition of Software Defined Networking (SDN) continues to broaden, today including functions such as configuration automation and orchestration. While these tasks aren’t strictly SDN, the fact ...

Increasingly, customers ask me about Network as Code and Cisco Services as Code. While network automation is even more critical in the AI era, there’s also a lot of myth, confusion, and a recurring ...

Network automation relies on a data repository to create network configurations and drive network validation tests. This repository has become known as a network source of truth (NSoT). The objective ...

In the previous post on JUNOS I gave you a brief overview of the software architecture, with a particular emphasis on modularity. In this post, we’ll have a first look at maneuvering around within a ...