with Urs Baumann
For decades we have discussed network automation, continually hoping the next tool or technology will solve it.Perhaps the issue is not the technology at all. Maybe we are just lazy.
This speech questions a number of unpleasant assumptions concerning automation, AI, engineering culture and our obsession with the next exciting innovation.
This speech presents an uncomfortable examination of the reasons why we could be the main obstacle to network automation.
Urs Baumann
Urs Baumann has been speaking on network automation for over ten years, which has given him plenty of opportunity to form strong opinions and become a bit grumpy about it.
He is a Solution Architect, network automation engineer, and university lecturer, working across network infrastructure, Python, data models, testing, and the occasional uncomfortable question about whether something is actually automation or just a complicated script.
Urs is also an open-source maintainer of NUTS (Network Unit Testing System), an unsurprising project for someone who has spent considerable time arguing that automation should probably be tested. He also maintains Pydantify and several Nornir plugins, including nornir-rich.
After more than a decade in the field, Urs remains convinced that network automation can be done better. He is still trying to figure out exactly how much of that conviction is experience and how much is simply getting grumpy.
From CPH Automate - a full day dedicated to network automation
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