[AusNOG] Work experience in networking/telecoms/DCs? Getting my foot in the door?

[Jacob Bisby]

Well that's a few steps ahead of the point I was making, but count me in on
said automation!

- Jacob Bisby

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Bennett [mailto:chris at ceegeebee.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 24 December 2014 10:14 AM
To: Jacob Bisby
Cc: 'Nathan Brookfield'; 'Cameron Ferdinands'; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Work experience in networking/telecoms/DCs? Getting my
foot in the door?

> In all fairness, you could also alleviate the problem with a much
> simpler "alias" configuration line. No need for an orchestration
> system to change VLAN configs.

Well the value in an orchestration system is that that one vlan change might
need to be made on more than one interface, on more than one device, so now
a netop has the choice of doing the same thing twice or more (at risk of
error or using an alias like you suggest), needing to remember the set of
devices & interfaces they must change for the vlan change to be complete, or
automating it.

And the change may be more than just 'add vlan' - it could be a 10-step
process as part of a provisioning workflow, so getting this stuff reliably
applied without human error means programming it in someway.

And in the context of gaining work experience & learning in SP/DC,
automating very simple adds/moves/changes is a very good way of learning how
to 'program your network'.

Regards,

Chris



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