NetBox Automation Heroes
In this episode of Network Automation Heroes, we sit down with Wim Hendrickx from Nokia to explore his pioneering work in network automation. Wim shares the story behind containerlab and dives into Kubernetes-inspired projects like kubenet, highlighting how cloud-native principles are reshaping the networking world. We discuss real challenges such as schema versioning, the rise of WebAssembly for lightweight automation, and how tools like NetBox fit into the ecosystem. Throughout the conversation, Wim emphasizes the value of a flexible, schema-driven approach to managing configurations, enabling collaboration and simplifying complex workflows. Packed with insights into both the current state and the future of network automation, this episode offers a practical and forward-looking perspective on where the industry is headed.
In episode 6 of the Network Automation Heroes, Mark Coleman and Steve Meuse, Solutions Architect at Kentik, discuss how manually configuring monitoring leads to unnecessary overhead and costly mistakes, and how after embarking on their network automation journeys with NetBox teams are well advised to take a look at automating their monitoring configurations first, to make sure they are building on solid foundations.
In episode 5 of the Network Automation Heroes, Mark Coleman and Wyatt Sullivan talk about how organizations adopting network automation need to be aware of “false summits”, or declaring victory too soon, and how extending our “definition of done” to making sure our colleagues can use our automation is a great step in the right direction.
In Episode 3 of the NetBox Automation Heroes, we discuss how Kriten.io helps network automation teams overcome “it works on my machine” syndrome, allowing network engineers to more easily share their creations across their organizations, without running afoul of duplication issues and security concerns.
In Episode 2 of the NetBox Automation Heroes, Mark Coleman and Otto Coster discuss how the combination of NetBox and Netpicker can help networking teams to collaborate better with their security colleagues, and how NetBox and Netpicker help teams to stay in control of their networks with automated assurance and compliance testing.
In Episode 1 of the NetBox Automation Heroes, Mark Coleman and Roman Dodin and Alex Bortok, discuss how the combination of NetBox, nrx, graphite & ContainerLab can help teams overcome common problems they run into when navigating their network automation journeys.
