Network Automation
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The future of network automation & orchestration
- By Sebastian Grabski,
- October 18, 2018
- Network Automation Network Orchestration SD-WAN
This post was originally published Aug 11 on Sebastian Grabski’s blog Orchestrated Things “Networks as we know them, are going to stay like that for quite some time” Once in a while, networking world is being shaken by the new “shiny object” which supposed to solve networking pains and make its operation silly stupid. The
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Network and Edge Automation with Cloudify
- By Nati Shalom,
- October 11, 2018
- Edge Computing Network Automation NFV
Cloudify is often used to automate and manage network services. We have previously discussed topics such as Network Automation, Edge Networking, Service Chaining, and, most recently, Intent-Based Networking. Watch our upcoming Edge Computing webinar with Mirantis! Register Now In this post, we will go through the core concepts of network automation and how to
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Intent Based Networking showcase: VPN service
- By Sebastian Grabski,
- October 4, 2018
- Network Automation Networking NFV
This post was originally published Aug 29 on Sebastian Grabski’s blog Orchestrated Things “…seeing is believing, isn’t it?” Intent Based Networking is one of my favorite topics, especially due to fact that it embraces the power of proper orchestration and automation. I covered already “declarative networking” where I presented the importance of orchestration DSL in
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Networking as Code
- By Ilan Adler,
- September 27, 2018
- Network Automation Network Orchestration
The Network as Code These days, teams like DevOps, NetDevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and Networking as Code are being used in marketing materials everywhere. But what a lot of people don’t realize is that these IT concepts are already a big part of network operations. They will likely become part of the future for any
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Closed loop orchestration (CLO) with Cloudify
- By Sebastian Grabski,
- July 30, 2018
- Monitoring Network Automation NFV
This post was originally published on Sebastian’s blog, Orchestrated Things, on June 26, 2018. “…the autonomy to IT systems?” When talking to customers, the idea of closed loop orchestration is popping up quite often. Some customers, especially in telco space are putting a lot of focus on it – mostly in the context of NFV.
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VOLTHA, SEBA, OSAM and ONAP with Cloudify for End-to-End Provisioning and Lifecycle Management of Access Devices
- By Shay Naeh,
- July 25, 2018
- Edge Computing Kubernetes Network Automation ONAP
Introduction The industry is pushing to make the access world simple with “Access as a service.” Today, each access vendor has its own implementation and many silos exist on dedicated hardware. The motivation is to introduce an access architecture which is open, that potentially runs on commodity servers and whitebox switches, and is based on
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Does intent-based networking require rip-and-replace?
- By Sebastian Grabski,
- July 11, 2018
- Network Automation Networking NFV
Intent-based networking is hitting the headlines lately, mostly due to an intensive marketing campaign by Cisco. Cisco is an absolute behemoth in the networking landscape and we should pay attention to their messages, as sometimes they introduce real game changers like Application-Centric Infrastructure. What is this intent-based networking then? Andrew Lerner from Gartner defines the
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Provisioning and Orchestrating MPLS Layer 3 VPNs With Cloudify
- By Sebastian Grabski,
- June 12, 2018
- Network Automation Networking
This article was originally published by Sebastian on June 4th on his blog, Orchestrated Things. “…can Cloudify be used for MPLS L3 VPN provisioning? Hell YES !!!” MPLS L3 VPNs are present on the market for quite some time. One may think, that is it long enough to consider them as “traditional” VPN technology. It
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The Significance and Importance of the ONAP Amsterdam Release
- By Sharone Zitzman,
- November 27, 2017
- Network Automation ONAP
The first release of ONAP, named Amsterdam, touched down just last week, November 20th, with a lot of expectation as well as preparation to get started on Beijing – with the ONAP developer summit happening just a couple of weeks following the Amsterdam release. The large majority of the work that went into the initial
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Demystifying ONAP via In-Person Training Classes
- By Amar Kapadia - Guest Post,
- November 16, 2017
- Network Automation Network Orchestration ONAP
If you are a Communications Service Provider (CSP) or an enterprise looking to implement Networks Function Virtualization (NFV) or Software Defined Networking (SDN), the Linux Foundation ONAP project merits a closer look. ONAP or Open Network Automation Platform is an open source management and orchestration platform for NFV and SDN. Some might argue that one
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