Automating and Orchestrating Networks with NetDevOps

Master a holistic approach to NetDevOps—from concepts to practical implementation

This is your comprehensive, holistic, end-to-end practitioner's guide to all things NetDevOps: all you need to use NetDevOps techniques to enhance network agility, productivity, and value.

Enterprise networking pioneers Ivo Pinto and Faisal Chaudhry introduce NetDevOps' origins, components, advantages, shortcomings, use cases, and adoption challenges. Next, they drill down into NetDevOps CI/CD pipelines and testing, Jenkins automation, EVE-NG clientless multivendor network emulation, and more from a vendor-neutral perspective.

Automating and Orchestrating Networks with NetDevOps is for every network or cloud operator, administrator, engineer, architect, and developer who implements, manages, or maintains network infrastructure. You'll find everything from detailed syntax and reusable code examples to deployment best practices, culminating in a full walkthrough of building your own NetDevOps architecture. Throughout, review questions help you reinforce and verify your understanding. Whatever your background or environment, this guide will help you embark confidently on your own NetDevOps journey.

• Understand where NetDevOps excels (and where it doesn't)
• Explore the components of practical implementations, and how they fit together
• Plan for common challenges, decisions, and investments
• Implement efficient, automated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins—with practical tooling and example code
• Use EVE-NG to create and configure virtual topologies for testing and verification
• Master proven NetDevOps architectural best practices from industry leaders
• Build your own architecture, step-by-step
• Address common use cases such as configuration changes and compliance verification
• Integrate NetDevOps with ChatOps, and interact with networks via Slack

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Getting Started with NetDevOps

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CI/CD pipeline for NetDevOps

Table of Contents

Introduction xvi

Chapter 1 Why Do We Need NetDevOps? 1

Market Trends 1

Modern Networking Products 3

NetDevOps and Its Advantages 9

Summary 50

Review Questions 51

Chapter 2 Getting Started with NetDevOps 53

Use Cases 53

Decisions and Investments 78

Adoption Challenges 87

Summary 92

Review Questions 93

Chapter 3 How to Implement CI/CD Pipelines with Jenkins 95

Jenkins Architecture 95

Jenkins Installation 99

Accessing Jenkins on the Web for the First Time 109

Plugins 112

Pipelines 115

Triggers 133

Alternatives 152

Summary 153

Review Questions 153

Chapter 4 How to Implement NetDevOps Pipelines with Jenkins 157

Common Stages 157

Single-Operation Pipelines 178

Combined Pipelines 189

Summary 193

Review Questions 194

Chapter 5 How to Implement Virtual Networks with EVE-NG 197

What Is EVE-NG? 197

Use Case: Lab Using Cisco CSR 1000V 214

Use Case: External IP Connectivity for Lab Topology 225

APIs of EVE-NG 231

Alternatives 233

Summary 234

Review Questions 234

Chapter 6 How to Build Your Own NetDevOps Architecture 237

Applying Configuration Changes 237

Verifying Security Compliance Using ChatOps 262

Summary 272

Review Questions 272

Appendix A Answers to Chapter Review Questions 275

9780137997282, TOC, 6/6/2023

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