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adopted DevOps methodologies for at least
some of their development activities within
the next 12 months.
Early DevOps initiatives have focused on
the integration of development, testing and
computing infrastructure provisioning to
increase developer productivity and speed
applications to market. As more and more
organisations move towards using DevOps-
driven workflows to support production
applications, the impact on network operations
is significant. Specifically, network operations
teams need to rapidly configure, scale, secure
and integrate network infrastructure and Layer
4–7 application services. They must anticipate
and respond to dynamic, ever changing
workload requirements for flexible capacity,
application security, load balancing and
multi-cloud integrations. In short, the network
team needs to be as agile and flexible as the
applications team and be fully empowered to
drive network agility.
Network operations teams need the
same level of reusable, scalable and
software-defined automation to control
network resources as systems and cloud
administrators have over computing and
storage assets. Modern, open-source-driven
automation-as-code solutions provide
proven technology to accelerate the
transformation of network operations using
automation to support digital initiatives and
DevOps priorities.
At F5 and Red Hat, we were curious about
the state of network automation and
co-sponsored a survey of more than 400
IT DevOps and NetOps professionals to
explore the topic. Our findings identify
opportunities where NetOps teams can
learn from DevOps best practices, integrate
with continuous deployment toolchains and
take advantage of modern, open-source-
driven automation technologies to create
a more agile, business-centric value for
tomorrow’s networks. n
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