NETWORK AUTO-REMEDIATION & CHATOPS

David  Gee,  November  2016Brocade,  NetDev  Consultant/Engineer

Agenda

• Network Automation; Why all the fuss?

• StackStorm Overview

• ChatOps

• Demo

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Network Automation; Why all the fuss?

• We just can’t keep pace with the rate of change

• Out of control with multiple sources of truth

• Myriad of APIs (CLI, NC, REST, SNMP)

• Lots of FUD (Open Washing)

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• A more consistent and reusable approach is required

• Random automation effort just isn’t enough

• Good design yields adhesion for automation

• We need an audit trail

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Network Automation; Why all the fuss?

Automation Has Maximum Impact In Context When Relevant

• Automation in context with relevance

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Network Automation; Why all the fuss?

• Automation in context with relevance!!!!!!!

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Network Automation; Why all the fuss?

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• Event Driven Automation

StackStorm Overview

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• Event Driven Automation

Automate

StackStorm Overview

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• Event Driven Automation

AutomateMonitor

StackStorm Overview

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• Event Driven Automation

AutomateMonitor

StackStorm Overview

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• Event Driven Automation

StackStorm Overview

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• Who  wants  to  actually  talk  to  people?

• I’m  anti-­‐social,  this  sounds  great!

ACTIONRULE

ChatOps

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ACTIONRULE

•Who wants to actually talk to people?• I’m anti-social, this sounds great!

ChatOps

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ACTIONRULE

• Culture Enabler (cue buzzword)• Diverse geographically dispersed technical skill sets• Great for receiving real time info about infrastructure & services

ChatOps

DEMO

https://youtu.be/OX1UFN4nzqs

TRY IT YOURSELF…

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Demo Setup

RULES

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R2

GoPEGo

Ping Executor

FIN

David GeeTwitter: @VTEP42Blog: http://ipengineer.net

Info from talk: https://github.com/davidjohngee/NOGTalks

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