The network used to rely on manual configurations, siloed and separated groups, and slow provisioning processes. Thanks to technology advancements, companies can now deploy code hundreds of thousands of times per day, quickly and accurately updating their network configurations and security policies. They can even instantly provision private circuits and SD-WAN from the branch/edge to cloud - and everything in between. NetDevOps automated continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) allows the testing and validation to take place. SD-WAN is NetDevOps, agility, speed and...
Stuart Clark
Network Automation Developer Evangelist
Cisco Systems
Stuart Clark is a Network Automation Developer for Cisco Devnet. He has worked for Cisco for over eight years designing, building and troubleshooting Cisco’s Security Cloud network with a strong focus on BGP, peering and coffee. Prior to joining Cisco DevNet, he worked in a variety of roles ranging from Network Engineer to Network Architect for Cisco. In the last few years his focus moved to network automation, spending more time on writing code for network automation at scale and moving networking towards a DevOps methodology. Stuart can be found on Twitter @bigevilbeard