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NANOG Meeting Presentation Abstract

NetDevOps - Ansible 101 to network nirvana
Meeting: NANOG65
Date / Time: 2015-10-06 9:30am - 11:00am
This item is webcast
Room: Le Grand Salon & Marquette
Presenters: Speakers:

Bronwyn Lewis, Packet Clearing House

Bronwyn Lewis is an engineer at non-profit Packet Clearing House. Part network engineer and part sysadmin, her work includes provisioning and deployment of DNS nodes around the world, as well as general IT and automation. Prior to PCH, Bronwyn managed operations & various technical projects at a market research start-up in Los Angeles. She studied international rights, justice, and governance issues at the New School in NYC.

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. Prior to Cumulus, Matt ran network & datacenter operations at Tumblr & Square. He also founded the first non-profit Internet Exchange within San Francisco, known as SFMIX. His work has been presented at numerous industry events, including APRICOT, BSDcon, Defcon, & CCC Camp.
Abstract: Tired of pasting repetitive configuration blocks from notepad? Fearful that hipster 20-somethings will automate your career? Wondering if it's time to hunker down and really learn a scripting language?

Automation, configuration management, unit testing, continuous integration ... all of these methodologies are nothing new and over the past decade, these traditional software development practices have been co-opted into the operations world. While these approaches continue to be all the rage for compute infrastructure admins, what about networking professionals?

This tutorial will start with a brief introduction to key DevOps concepts along with how these can be applied to networks. The bulk of the presented material will focus on a beginners guide to using Ansible, a well known open source automation tool. True to NANOG guidelines, examples shown will be vendor agnostic and geared to be applicable to common environments. With time availability, advanced examples which connect into an IPAM system or multi-vendor protocol testing will be quickly reviewed. The end goal of this tutorial is to wrap with comfortable working knowledge of basic Ansible usage and how you might apply it - it is only the tip of the iceberg in networking automation, but crucial to getting started.

Before the session, please take time to follow instructions and install needed components at:

https://github.com/bronwynlewis/nanog65-automation-tutorial
Files: youtubeNetDevOps - Ansible 101 to network nirvana
Sponsors: None.

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NANOG65 Abstracts

  • Conference Opening
    Speakers:
    Tony Tauber, Comcast; Christian S. TacitTorIX; .
    Philippe Couture, Videotron; Clinton Work, TELUS;
  • Conference Opening
    Speakers:
    Tony Tauber, Comcast; Christian S. TacitTorIX; .
    Philippe Couture, Videotron; Clinton Work, TELUS;
  • Conference Opening
    Speakers:
    Tony Tauber, Comcast; Christian S. TacitTorIX; .
    Philippe Couture, Videotron; Clinton Work, TELUS;
  • Conference Opening
    Speakers:
    Tony Tauber, Comcast; Christian S. TacitTorIX; .
    Philippe Couture, Videotron; Clinton Work, TELUS;
  • DNS Track
    Speakers:
    Geoff HustonAPNIC; .
    Duane Wessels, VeriSign; Keith MithcellDNS-OARC; .
    Brian SomersOpenDNS ; .
    Ray BellisInternet Systems Consortium; .
    Eddie Winstead.
    Tomas HlavacekCZ.NIC; .
  • DNS Track
    Speakers:
    Geoff HustonAPNIC; .
    Duane Wessels, VeriSign; Keith MithcellDNS-OARC; .
    Brian SomersOpenDNS ; .
    Ray BellisInternet Systems Consortium; .
    Eddie Winstead.
    Tomas HlavacekCZ.NIC; .
  • DNS Track
    Speakers:
    Geoff HustonAPNIC; .
    Duane Wessels, VeriSign; Keith MithcellDNS-OARC; .
    Brian SomersOpenDNS ; .
    Ray BellisInternet Systems Consortium; .
    Eddie Winstead.
    Tomas HlavacekCZ.NIC; .
  • DNS Track
    Speakers:
    Geoff HustonAPNIC; .
    Duane Wessels, VeriSign; Keith MithcellDNS-OARC; .
    Brian SomersOpenDNS ; .
    Ray BellisInternet Systems Consortium; .
    Eddie Winstead.
    Tomas HlavacekCZ.NIC; .
  • DNS Track
    Speakers:
    Geoff HustonAPNIC; .
    Duane Wessels, VeriSign; Keith MithcellDNS-OARC; .
    Brian SomersOpenDNS ; .
    Ray BellisInternet Systems Consortium; .
    Eddie Winstead.
    Tomas HlavacekCZ.NIC; .
  • DNS Track
    Speakers:
    Geoff HustonAPNIC; .
    Duane Wessels, VeriSign; Keith MithcellDNS-OARC; .
    Brian SomersOpenDNS ; .
    Ray BellisInternet Systems Consortium; .
    Eddie Winstead.
    Tomas HlavacekCZ.NIC; .
  • DNS Track
    Speakers:
    Geoff HustonAPNIC; .
    Duane Wessels, VeriSign; Keith MithcellDNS-OARC; .
    Brian SomersOpenDNS ; .
    Ray BellisInternet Systems Consortium; .
    Eddie Winstead.
    Tomas HlavacekCZ.NIC; .
  • Peering Track
    Moderators:
    Sylvie LaPerriere, Google Inc.; Patrick Gilmore, Markley Group; Panelists:
    David E. Young, Verizon; Hank Hultquist, AT&T; Joseph Cavender, Level 3 Communications; Speakers:
    Jon Nistor, TorIX;
  • Peering Track
    Moderators:
    Sylvie LaPerriere, Google Inc.; Patrick Gilmore, Markley Group; Panelists:
    David E. Young, Verizon; Hank Hultquist, AT&T; Joseph Cavender, Level 3 Communications; Speakers:
    Jon Nistor, TorIX;
  • Peering Track
    Moderators:
    Sylvie LaPerriere, Google Inc.; Patrick Gilmore, Markley Group; Panelists:
    David E. Young, Verizon; Hank Hultquist, AT&T; Joseph Cavender, Level 3 Communications; Speakers:
    Jon Nistor, TorIX;
  • Peering Track
    Moderators:
    Sylvie LaPerriere, Google Inc.; Patrick Gilmore, Markley Group; Panelists:
    David E. Young, Verizon; Hank Hultquist, AT&T; Joseph Cavender, Level 3 Communications; Speakers:
    Jon Nistor, TorIX;
  • Peering Track
    Moderators:
    Sylvie LaPerriere, Google Inc.; Patrick Gilmore, Markley Group; Panelists:
    David E. Young, Verizon; Hank Hultquist, AT&T; Joseph Cavender, Level 3 Communications; Speakers:
    Jon Nistor, TorIX;
  • Peering Track
    Moderators:
    Sylvie LaPerriere, Google Inc.; Patrick Gilmore, Markley Group; Panelists:
    David E. Young, Verizon; Hank Hultquist, AT&T; Joseph Cavender, Level 3 Communications; Speakers:
    Jon Nistor, TorIX;

 

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