All Episodes

How Hard Can It Be? Simplicity and Network Operations

Intent and Natural Languages

There Can Be Only One: The Highlander Principle

Ansible or Skip and Go Right To Python?

Are Traditional Networking Jobs No More?

What the &#@! Is A Tenant?

Finding the Time To Automate When You're Already Underwater

Network Automation Platform Wishlist (Part 1)

Ansible: No Commit Confirm?

What Is The Goal of Network Automation/NetDevOps

Push Configs from Data Models to Configs: The Genesis Torpedo Method

Throwing More Shade at YANG

Don't Add Meetings/Committees To Your Change Control Process, Add Autotmation

How Automation Affects Design (Like Choosing Routing Protocols)

Ansible Problems Summer 2025

It's Time To Retire The Term SDN (Software Defined Networking)

I Love YAML

Declarative vs Imperative Automation

Getting Syntax onto Switches (No YANG)

Too Many New Things At Once

Test Driven Deployment

AI, Machine Learning, or Nah?

CI/CD and Network Automation

What's In A Name?

REST API or RPC?

The Network Automation "Hump"

Network Controller Concepts and Evolution

Automation in the Past

Skillsets

A Brief History of Network Automation

Automation in a Team Environment

Open Source vs Closed Source For Network Automation

The Term "CLI" and Network Automation

Linux Controversy

Raw Python versus Frameworks/Platforms

DevOps for Automation or Na?

CI/CD for Network Automation

Incremental Configuration Change versus Total Configuration Replacement

APIs: Open or Na?

Problems with Network Autotmation

Configuration Generation

Syntax or Models

Google It!

Whither VIM?

Stunted Growth

Bad Takes #1

Questions Part 2

Undertaught Aspects of Network Automation: YAML, Dictionaries, Lists, JSON

On Supplemental and Total Automation

Network Automation Questions #1

Python and Network Automation

Pep Talk for Network Administrators Learning Automation

My Personal Network Automation Journey

What Is This Podcast? Episode 0