In the everything is software-defined, everything is a service world, network virtualization is joining compute and storage virtualization to give DevOps even more control over the underlay networking. And now Red Hat has added the capabilities to control networking infrastructure to Ansible, its infrastructure automation software.
Networking support in Ansible is available immediately for Arista EOS, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), Cisco IOS-XE, Cisco IOS-XR, Cisco NX-OS, Cumulus Linux, OpenSwitch and Juniper’s Junos OS.
With Ansible, DevOps get the capability to automate network infrastructure using SSH and APIs. They don’t have to worry about installing or loading vendor specific, closed software onto their devices, something that could be an unwanted clog in the infrastructure.
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Related Posts:
IDG Contributor Network: Ansible bridges traditional networking teams and DevOps
No comments:
Post a Comment