Opening Remarks & The State of the Industry
summary
Network automation progresses from proofs of concept to messy production reality: early SDN/OpenFlow demos mostly stall while NSX and SDKs show viable paths; Cisco 1PK proves device APIs can exist; community projects like Ansible modules, NAPALM, and NetBox supply usable libraries and inventories. Operations remain the hard part—automation changes workflows more than protocols—and deployments often require months of integration with CMDBs, orchestration and monitoring. Demos and panels promise concrete recipes, but expect significant effort to reach repeatable production at scale.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:40Audience Poll
- 4:30Schedule
- 11:32State of the Industry
- 15:00Personal Digitally Violent
- 23:06Other Questions
- 24:02Automation
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