NetOps (DevOps for Network Engineers): Automating Networks

Learn DevOps principles and practices in the networking environment for fast application deployment, increased network stability, and maintaining a consistent change process.

Introduction

• DevOps for network engineers
• What you should know

1. DevOps for Network Engineers Overview

• DevOps principles
• DevOps practices
• Unique network engineering challenges in DevOps
• Prerequisites for this course
• Setting up a network DevOps lab
• Network automation examples with Python libraries
• Network configuration backup example with Ansible

2. GitLab and CI/CD

• Introduction to Git
• Basic Git operations
• GitLab fundamentals
• Network application example
• GitLab DevOps CI/CD pipelines
• GitLab pipeline example: Build
• GitLab pipeline example: Review and test
• GitLab pipeline example: Deploy
• GitLab pipeline example: Monitor

3. Network DevOps Examples

• Network configuration backup with Ansible
• GitLab integration for configuration backup
• Network API application example
• Network API integration with GitLab

4. Testing in DevOps

• Testing fundamentals
• Testing with pytest
• Network testing with pyATS
• Network testing in GitLab

Conclusion

• Next steps
• Conclusion