How to bridge the skills gap, expand participation and accelerate network automation within your organization.

1. Democratizing Network Automation
Through Low-Code
WEBINAR
Rich Martin
Senior Technical
Marketing Engineer
Itential
Karan Munalingal
Senior Solutions Architect,
Itential
How to bridge the skills gap and accelerate network automation
within your organization

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Today’s Reality: Siloed Network Operations
Duplication and conflict among siloed network operations, DevOps & engineering teams
inhibit organizations from accelerating digital transformation initiatives.
The Network is
getting more
complex
Skills are needed
to maintain both
old and new
technologies
Re-training
network engineers
as software
developers is
unrealistic
Rip and replace is
costly & time
intensive

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Why Democratization for Network Automation
Enable more participation in network automation
Remove silos and mitigate network bottleneck
Leverage the right skill for the right task
Reduce costs and decrease time to value
Democratization is focused on providing people with access to technical expertise via a radically
simplified experience and without requiring extensive and costly training.

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Cloud Networking
VPC vs VLAN
Programmable Networks
No more CLI
Applications Drive
Networking Demands
Connectivity to cloud based applications
DevOps Tools for Networking
Ansible & Terraform are dominating
Mega Trends Shifting Skillsets

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What is Needed to Democratize Network Automation
Expand automation participation and use the right
skill for the right task, enable automation for all
Easy Onramp for Non-Developer
Invite IT, security and NetOps teams to streamline
business processes.
Capture Network Tribal Knowledge
Leverage traditional network automation & management
practices (Scripts, CLI) for re-use across organization
Integrate DevOps Principles
Augment network automations with CI/CD pipelines and
API Services
Enable Cloud Architect Participation
Real-time feedback and control of cloud-based
applications and infrastructure critical to modern networks

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API First
Consolidate and extend the capabilities of individual
network management tools into a single network API.
Abstraction & Federation
Itential brings together processes & logic from
integrated systems to use in automations.
Model Consumption
Easily consume & federate YANG, YAML and
TOSCA modeling languages, abstracting the
complexity from the user.
Low-Code
Drag-and-drop interface enables users to
easily design, build & run repeatable
automation workflows
Itential Automation Platform
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Itential is intelligent automation for multi-domain networks

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Itential’s Automation Platform Enables Automation for All
DevOps Integration
• Git Strategies
• Infrastructure as Code
• CI/CD Pipeline (Argo)
• API Services
Network Management
• Automation Gateway
• Automation Studio
• Configuration Manager
• Service Manager
Developer Tools
• Open-Source Adapters
• Adapter Builder
• Pre-Built Automations
Itential provides software that enables network engineers, software developers & IT to participate in network automation

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Demo 1:
Automation Studio
• Graphical Automation Canvas
• Intelligent Templates
• Built-in Network Intelligence
• Pre-Built Automations
• Open APIs
• Automation Catalog
Use Case: Creating a VPC in AWS

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Demo 1
Automation Studio: VPC in AWS

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The Onramp to Network Automation
PRE-BUILT AUTOMATIONS
• Software Upgrade
• SD-WAN Branch Management
• Golden Configuration Compliance
• DNS Updates
• Virtual IP Management
• Firewall Configuration Change
• Load Balancing
• Device Onboarding
• L2/L3 VPN
Enable DevOps & NetOps teams to rapidly onboard automation principles
ADAPTERS

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Demo 2
Pre-Built Automation: Software Upgrade

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Leverage Existing Automation Efforts
Integrate existing automation efforts and transform
scripts into APIs for use in network automation
workflows within Itential’s Automation Platform.
Expand Automation Participation
Enable network engineers, software developers and
IT operations to participate in network automation
through low-code, drag-and-drop environment &
built-in network intelligence.
Scale Automation as You Grow
Deploy network automation in your organization
at your own pace from basic operations and
maintenance tasks such as router/switch upgrades
and device management, to managing device
configuration and compliance and service & policy.
Build Your Own Automation Factory with Itential
Integrate with Existing Environment
Extend automations beyond the network by
providing a single, aggregated network API that
connects other tools within your IT ecosystems like
ticketing, change management, inventory and
monitoring tools.

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