This presentation aims to provide the fundamentals for the next generation Network Engineers.

1. Network Automation
Principles
Pavlos Kleanthous

2. Network Automation
Principles
• Unified API across different Vendors.
• Standardise Network Architecture = Configuration
Templates
• Multiple configuration data stores (candidate,
running, startup).
• Transactional configuration changes.
• Configuration testing and validation.

3. Network Development Kit

4. Continuous Integration

5. Continuous Deployment

6. NAPALM
(Network Automation and Programmability Abstraction
Layer with Multivendor support)