Heavy Networking 503: Achieve Multi-Domain Network Automation With Itential (Sponsored)




Heavy Networking show

Summary: As organizations engage with network automation, they want to be able to leverage their existing automation tools (scripts, Ansible playbooks, orchestrators, etc.) rather than an automation vendor’s specific tool set.<br> On today’s Heavy Networking, we talk with sponsor <a href="https://www.itential.com/packetpushers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Itential</a> about its network automation approach, where you can take what you’re already using and incorporate it into a holistic automation strategy.<br> Itential enables automation across multiple domains–physical, virtual, and cloud–and takes a low-code approach so that your engineers don’t have to become developers.<br> Our guest is Chris Wade, Itential’s co-founder and CTO.<br> We discuss:<br> <br> * Itential’s approach to multi-domain automation<br> * How Itential incorporates existing scripts, tools, and orchestration systems<br> * Integrating cloud and network strategies<br> * The transition from CLI to API<br> * The role of Swagger and JSON schemas<br> * Use cases and real-world examples<br> <br> Show Links:<br> <a href="https://www.itential.com/packetpushers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Itential</a><br> <a href="https://developer.itential.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Developer.itential.io</a><br> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/itential" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Itential on Twitter</a><br>