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NANOG Meeting Presentation Abstract

Real-world Network Automation
Meeting: NANOG63
Date / Time: 2015-02-04 9:30am - 10:30am
This item is webcast
Room: Salon I
Presenters: Moderators:

Matt Peterson, Cumulus Networks

Matt Peterson works within the office of the CTO at Cumulus Networks. At Cumulus, he built the initial customer experience team, and is responsible for technical evangelism and customer product direction. Matt has held enable access on 2 to 5 digit ASN organizations - as well as co-founding the first non-profit IX within San Francisco, known as SFMIX. His work has been presented at numerous industry events, including APRICOT, BSDcon, Defcon, & CCC Camp. At NANOG62, Matt presented on an extreme temporary network deployment for the annual Burning Man festival - this panel will continue the discussion on using modern automation on IP networks.
Panelists:

Bronwyn Lewis, Packet Clearing House

Bronwyn Lewis is a provisioning engineer at non-profit Packet Clearing House. In her role at PCH, her work focuses on configuring and deploying equipment around the world, seeing new equipment from first-rack through PoP installation. Prior to PCH, Bronwyn managed operations & various technical projects at a market research start-up in Los Angeles and studied global rights, justice, and governance issues at the New School in NYC.

Carlos Vicente, Dyn

Carlos Vicente is a Principal Network Engineer at Dyn, where he contributes to Dyn's next-generation infrastructure. His interests include network design, automation and management. Prior to Dyn, he worked for ISC where he helped maintain and grow the worldwide DNS F-Root network. He also worked with the University of Oregon and the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) building networks and training engineers in emerging regions. Carlos is the author of the open source Network Documentation Tool (Netdot). He is originally from the Dominican Republic and has an M.S. degree in Telematics from the Politechnic University of Catalonia (Spain).

Jérôme Fleury, CloudFlare

Jérôme Fleury helped build large Internet Service Providers in France including Tiscali and Telecom Italia, as a Network Engineer there, he deployed one of the largest Local Loop Unbundling network during the 2000 market deregulation in France. Then, from 2005-2007, he managed the Telecom Italia backbone in France before joining the newly built French internet exchange-FranceIX-as a technical manager. While with FranceIX he enjoyed facilitating the rebirth of peering in France. Since 2013, Jérôme has been discovering the world of globally distributed CDN network management with CloudFlare.
Abstract: The legacy of specialized tools developers has long been eclipsed by the DevOps movement - uniting developers & operations staff to share common responsibilities, technology, and mindshare. This growing crusade has extended to the network, where traditional IP network engineers are adopting systems administration skills. Ironically many of the industry led efforts (Yang, NETCONF, etc) have seen vague wide-scale adoption - while bottom-up efforts (Ansible, Schprokits, Puppet) have led the majority of publicly acknowledged automation tools.

Each panelist will briefly describe their organization, history of tooling, and personal experience developing or supporting an automation effort. After which the panel will break out into a Q&A session that covers:
Culture / staff training - getting adoption across a team or organization
Tool / languages chosen - existing software vs custom development, accessibility
Scaling - is a large environment a prerequisite, where does one start?
Unique to the chosen panelists is a diverse set of automation use-cases, from initial configuration (templates, IP calculation), traffic engineering, and policy enforcement.
Files: pdfReal-world Network Automation(PDF)
youtubeReal-world Network Automation
Sponsors: None.

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NANOG63 Abstracts

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    Joe Provo, Google; Panelists:
    McGehee Games, CenturyLink; Steve Powell, Level3; Dave Siegel, Level 3 Communications; Richard A Steenbergen
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    Moderators:
    Joe Provo, Google; Panelists:
    McGehee Games, CenturyLink; Steve Powell, Level3; Dave Siegel, Level 3 Communications; Richard A Steenbergen
  • Network Integration Panel
    Moderators:
    Joe Provo, Google; Panelists:
    McGehee Games, CenturyLink; Steve Powell, Level3; Dave Siegel, Level 3 Communications; Richard A Steenbergen
  • Network Integration Panel
    Moderators:
    Joe Provo, Google; Panelists:
    McGehee Games, CenturyLink; Steve Powell, Level3; Dave Siegel, Level 3 Communications; Richard A Steenbergen
  • DNS Track
    Moderators:
    Duane Wessels, VeriSign;
  • Real-world Network Automation
    Moderators:
    Matt Peterson, Cumulus Networks; Panelists:
    Bronwyn Lewis, Packet Clearing House; Carlos Vicente, Dyn; Jérôme Fleury, CloudFlare;
  • Real-world Network Automation
    Moderators:
    Matt Peterson, Cumulus Networks; Panelists:
    Bronwyn Lewis, Packet Clearing House; Carlos Vicente, Dyn; Jérôme Fleury, CloudFlare;
  • Real-world Network Automation
    Moderators:
    Matt Peterson, Cumulus Networks; Panelists:
    Bronwyn Lewis, Packet Clearing House; Carlos Vicente, Dyn; Jérôme Fleury, CloudFlare;
  • Real-world Network Automation
    Moderators:
    Matt Peterson, Cumulus Networks; Panelists:
    Bronwyn Lewis, Packet Clearing House; Carlos Vicente, Dyn; Jérôme Fleury, CloudFlare;

 
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