Understanding the Benefits of Network Automation and How They Impact Your Network Team

As networks continue to evolve and grow in complexity, the need for network automation is becoming more and more crucial. Luckily, the benefits of network automation are numerous and the impact on your organization is significant.

Network Automation Architecture – Automation Engine

In the previous blogs of this series about Network Automation Architecture, 12, and 3, we have presented the key architectural components and their respective functions. This blog will be expanding on the role of the Automation Engine. The automation engine is the component that contains all the tasks that interact with the network, to change the state of the network via configuration management processes.

Gaining Control of Network Data with Nautobot Single Source of Truth

Companies of all sizes continue to adopt network automation, but larger enterprise organizations have their challenges when it comes to managing the data that drives this change. There is no single data owner at most enterprises, so different teams and tools need to be integrated to generate the intended configured state of the network required for automation.