Simplifying Community Automation with NetGru

How you can be a community engineer within the age of automation

I’ve been concerned with community engineering for the higher a part of 20 years now and I’ve noticed large modifications within the trade throughout these twenty years, from Body Relay and ATM changing into out of date to Ethernet taking up and changing into a pervasive know-how. However moreover me getting older and completely different transport applied sciences going by existential crises, the most important growth in all these years was the emergence of community automation and programmability. That is the change that has most likely affected essentially the most what it means to be a community engineer nowadays.

Sure, completely different applied sciences and protocols come and go in classical community engineering, however automation requires a very new set of abilities. These new abilities range in complexity and value from studying how you can write YAML information and dealing with Ansible, to writing HCL information for Terraform configuration, to being totally proficient in a programming language comparable to Python or Golang. The premise and basis for all these new abilities comes from software program growth. This has all the time been tangential to community engineering, however with the arrival of automation is taking a entrance row seat.

Relying on the dimensions of the networks and environments you might be engaged on, and the way your organization is organized, it is perhaps you that has to turn into a proficient software program developer and produce automation into your group. Or, you might need to work with software program builders and clarify to them how the community is working, what must be finished to automate your online business processes and workflows in a language and with ideas that they perceive and that they’ll simply flip into supply code.

You aren’t alone

If all of this sounds formidable to you, don’t despair, you aren’t alone in your automation journey. We have now a unbelievable group of engineers at completely different levels of their careers which can be more than pleased to share their laborious realized automation classes with you. I host a weekly stay stream on Wednesdays at 9:00AM PT known as Simplifying Community Automation with NetGru that’s being broadcast stay and recorded on the Cisco DevNet YouTube channel and LinkedIn account.

In two current episodes I’ve had the privilege of internet hosting Julio Gomez, Principal Gross sales Architect at Cisco. We’ve mentioned how purposes have developed through the years – from monoliths to micro companies architectures, containerized purposes and Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, telepresence (not the Cisco one), mirrord, Okteto, and extra. Most significantly, we talked about how you can be a community engineer on this new world surrounded by all these thrilling applied sciences. Listed here are hyperlinks the place you may watch these recorded episodes:

Mark your calendars to tune in to the weekly stay stream

Simplifying Community Automation with NetGru
Wednesdays at 9:00AM PT
Broadcast stay and recorded on the Cisco DevNet YouTube channel and LinkedIn

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