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Over the course of my career I have built a number of web portals, most of which have been designed by the seat of my pants and based

This is part of a series of posts to help establish sound Network Automation Principles.

Ansible’s variable management system is fairly extensible, however the cost of that extensibility and associated design choices can cause some inefficiencies when interacting with external systems. Specifically, it

Forecasting is a fascinating concept. Who does not want to know the future? Oracles from the ancient times, a multitude of statistical forecasting models, and machine learning prediction

My role at Network to Code involves speaking with many of our customers’ network teams. In working with our customers, I’ve noticed that there are seemingly more commonalities

Testing your code is a key component of the Software Development Lifecycle. If you are like me and came from a networking background, you may not be aware

UPDATE October 2022 Since this post was originally created, there have been multiple updates on both the Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Teams side for setting up ChatOps bots.

Most of the blog posts and information about network automation focus on the technical details and are directed toward the network engineers. There is more to the network

Nautobot 1.2 introduced the functionality of Secrets. Secrets provide the ability for Nautobot to access and use sensitive data. To make the best use of automation, jobs and

Recently I had a need to do some automation against a group of IOS-XE routers and decided I’d like to take another look at using the RESTCONF API

The Nautobot SSoT App provides a general framework for synchronizing data between Nautobot and another Source of Truth (SoT) or System of Record (SoR). In this blog post,

In this post, we’re going to have a look at Django QuerySet annotations. We’ll answer questions about what they are and why you would want to use them.