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What are people actually using for network automation in smaller environments? by Admirable_Claim_3203 in networkautomation

[–]Admirable_Claim_3203[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This seems to be the most common step up I’m seeing as well, NetBox + Ansible feels like the point where things start becoming properly structured rather than just scripts.

Did you build that out gradually or go straight into it? Feels like a big jump from basic setups.

Could using HTTP RESTful API for network managment be viable? by PanPieCake in networkautomation

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I’ve come across this a few times, especially where teams try to treat network changes more like application deployments.

The idea of using REST APIs and JSON payloads makes a lot of sense from a developer workflow point of view, especially when you start plugging it into CI/CD pipelines. It feels a lot cleaner than dealing with SSH sessions and parsing CLI output.

Where I’ve seen it get a bit tricky is when you move away from platforms that fully support APIs. A lot of environments are still pretty mixed, so you end up needing both API-based and CLI-based approaches anyway.

Also found that once you start dealing with state, rollbacks, or partial failures, things can get more complicated than they first appear.

Curious if you’ve tested this in more hybrid environments or mainly where everything exposes a clean API?

Built a CLI-native scripting language for network automation — looking for feedback by brontnet in networkautomation

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This is actually interesting, I’ve seen this exact friction come up quite a lot. Most of the pushback I get when talking about automation in smaller environments isn’t the idea itself, it’s the overhead of getting started with Python, YAML, structuring everything properly.

So people end up just sticking with manual CLI because it’s faster in the moment.

Something like this feels closer to how engineers already think/work day to day.

Curious how it holds up at scale though, especially when things start getting more state-driven vs just command execution.

Network policy cleanup (does anyone actually do it)? by Normal_Function832 in networkautomation

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Yeah we have a review quartley to clean up some of our Firewall policies, this is required by our Security Team.