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Creating a Single Source of Truth for Enterprise Network Automation

November 29, 2022

Network Automation continues to grow by companies independent of size or vertical. However, larger Enterprise organizations have significant more challenges as it comes to managing the data that ultimately drives network automation. This includes everything from inventory, VLAN IDs, and IP Addresses to BGP ASNs and Firewall Policies. In large organizations, there is not one data owner. There are different teams and tools that need to be integrated to generate the intended configured state of the network.

This webinar provides an overview of Nautobot Single Source of Truth (SSoT), which is an application framework built on top of Nautobot to simplify integrating distributed data sources.  Nautobot SSoT unifies data sources, exposes them centrally through REST and GraphQL APIs and allows data owners to remain in control of their own data. Join this webinar to learn more about Nautobot SSoT and how it can integrate with common data sources such as IPAM (Infoblox), circuit databases, ITSM and CMDBs (e.g. ServiceNow) as well as network controller platforms like Arista CloudVision, Cisco ACI, VMware NSX, and many more.

Agenda:

• Current State of Enterprise Network Automation 
• Enterprise Data Management & Governance
• Introduction to Nautobot SSoT
• Existing Nautobot SSoT Integrations 
• Nautobot SSoT Demos 
• What’s next for NTC in Data Management

Speakers:

John Anderson

Principal Consultant & Nautobot Product Owner (Network to Code)

Christian Adell

Principal Architect (Network to Code)

Tim Schreyack

Director of Sales Engineering(Network to Code)

Simplify Network Automation with Nautobot Jobs

October 6, 2022

At some point, every organization on their network automation journey ends up with script-sprawl. This is when every person or every team gets excited after learning some Python! However, in an Enterprise environment, controls are needed, and moreover, there is a great need to execute those scripts well beyond using the Python shell. Being able to execute scripts directly from a self-service form or an API greatly increases the odds of empowering other teams to take advantage of the automation.

In this webinar, you will learn how you can easily enable self-service and API access to any Python script with Nautobot Jobs. You’ll get to see how to update an existing script, so it’s usable by Nautobot (including how to schedule and approve Jobs), but also how to properly version control your Jobs in Git too so everyone can collaborate and contribute across your team.

Agenda:

• Day in the Life of Getting Started with Network Automation
• Introduction to Nautobot Jobs
• Diving into Jobs with Schedules, Approvals, and JobHooks
• Nautobot Jobs Demos

Speakers:

John Anderson

Principal Consultant & Nautobot Product Owner (Network to Code)

Jeremy White

Principal Developer Advocate (Network to Code)

Network Automation with Nautobot & IP Fabric

September 29, 2022

Learn how you can build a comprehensive network automation solution with Nautobot and IP Fabric! You will learn about network automation architecture and the differences between observed and intended network state.

In this webinar, IP Fabric joins us to highlight how our integrations allow you to synchronize actual state in the IP Fabric Automated Network Assurance Platform and Nautobot. You’ll also see how Nautobot ChatOps enables real-time access to data in IP Fabric’s Assurance Platform, significantly reducing the time it takes to resolve production issues by network and security operations teams.

Agenda:

• Network Automation Architecture 
• Nautobot Overview & Demo 
• IP Fabric Overview & Demo 
• IP Fabric ChatOps & Single Source of Truth (SSoT) Demos 
• Use Case Overview

Speakers:

Paddy Kelly

Managing Consultant (Network to Code)

Daren Fulwell

Network Automation Evangelist (IP Fabric)

Tim Schreyack

Director of Sales Engineering (Network to Code)