Heavy Networking | August 25, 2018
Weekly Show 404: Running Open Networks In Production
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Ethan
Banks
Greg
Ferro
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In this episode we talk a second time to network architect Andrey Khomyakov, who’s helped his organization make the transition from traditional to open networking in production.
Our first chat with Andrey was in Weekly Show 399. The way it worked out, that ended up being a mostly hardware conversation, which made some of you very grumpy, and you aimed packets at us with the evil bit set.
Today, we want to drill into the management and operations side of things and complete our open networking in production conversation. If you’re still grumpy after this episode, maybe it’s time to start your own podcast.
We discuss the network stack and the infrastructure environment Andrey works within, look at ongoing operational issues, examine how Andrey and his team use automation, and look at the staffing and training impacts of open networking.
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Show Links:
Show 399: Open Networking In Production – Packet Pushers
Show 351 Design & Build 13: Network Orchestration with Salt – Packet Pushers
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Yet another excellent show! I especially like the fact that peer engineers were given the golden opportunity in transforming their past procedures in updating the network over to a programmatic/repeatable way. It takes great leadership and dedication to steer such a big ship (the network) over to an open and programmable architecture, and this is an excellent example that it can be done at scale.
I look forward to hearing how your automation continues to improve, from the sounds of it, it looks like Athenahealth is on the right track of jumping to the next chapter in automation using CI/CD.
Shows like this are really what keeps me hooked to Packetpushers – solid real life examples of what and how others overcome networking challenges.
I’ll give this !!!!! pings out of 5 🙂