Networks consist of distributed nodes — routers, switches and the like — that systems administrators and network engineers have, for the most part, managed individually via command line interfaces.

Build or buy? That's the typical discussion around network automation. In reality, however, the discussion is more involved and nuanced than that. Every project today has some open source. It drives ...

By shifting to an automation model that relies on an authoritative 'network source of truth,' Intel scaled its network, ...

Use the Python Netmiko module to automate switches, routers and firewalls from multiple vendors. I frequently find myself in the position of confronting "hostile" networks. By hostile, I mean that ...

There are plenty of automation tools today that promise results without writing a single line of code, but they come with limits. You’re usually locked into the templates and workflows the platform ...

“Don’t spend your time doing work a well-trained monkey could do. Even if you’ve never written a line of code, you can make your computer do the grunt work.” – Al Sweigart, author of Automate the ...

Automate your system maintenance with these three essential Python tools.

If there were an award for “most improved IT orchestration and configuration management tool,” Red Hat’s Ansible would be a top contender. Since its initial development by Michael DeHaan in 2012, it ...