Tech Bytes: First Bank’s Automation With Gluware. The Real Story.

In this Tech Byte, we talk with Gluware customer, First Bank. First Bank is a family-owned, privately held bank operating in the Midwest and California, with roughly 100 locations in 5 different states.

Our guests are Julie Wehling, Solutions Architect at Gluware; and Mike Pazarena, Network Engineer at First Bank. Mike talks about starting his automation journey with Python and Ansible for bank branch networks before realising that it wasn’t the right fit for First Bank. 

Gluware delivered for First Bank, providing a practical useful automation platform. In particular they found the configuration modelling easy to use and modify the network operations. The detection of configuration drift highlighted gaps in procedures, and remediation was automated.

Here are the topics that we covered:

• What is the problem you were trying to solve and why did you choose Gluware?
  • Previous Experience with Scripting
  • What other technologies did you investigate 
• First Bank Architecture using Juniper switches
• What was your experience using Gluware (the various applications)?
  • Drift and Audits
    • Findings
    • Surprises 
  • Config Modeling
    • Ability to remediate
    • What you liked about it?
• Challenges of doing all of this remotely because of COVID?
• Overall findings/benefits from using Gluware?