Why configuration management system was a must for our network, and how we chose SaltStack When we planned and designed the network automation at Imperva Cloud, we split our automation systems into three different systems, where each of the systems has a different set of requirements: Infrastructure configuration – Managing the configuration for the network […]

This is a SaltConf18 breakout session by Nathan Newton, IBM Cloud network developer, Mike Wiebe, Cisco technical leader engineer, Gerard Sheehan, Cisco product manager.

The team at IBM Cloud that manages the physical network selected Salt Proxy Minions and NAPALM to increase operational efficiency, enhance visibility into current state, and streamline deployment of new infrastructure.

Cisco, being a primary networking vendor for IBM, has recognized the value created by this approach and is actively working to provide native support for the capabilities provided by SaltStack.

If you are new to SaltStack and would like to intelligently automate the management and security of your infrastructure, here are a couple ways to get started:
SaltStack hosted tutorials - https://www.saltstack.com/ss-get-access/
Download Salt Open - https://www.saltstack.com/download-saltstack-automation-engine/

This is a SaltConf18 breakout session by Andrew Dampf, Linode network engineer.

Learn how Linode leverages Salt in the networking world. Investigate challenges faced, such as getting team members unfamiliar with the DevOps world to use Salt and minimizing the learning curve for new team members.

Learn how to:

Integrate Salt with ChatOps
Query Mine about networking info directly from Slack
Use the event bus to make configuration changes to routers

If you are new to SaltStack and would like to intelligently automate the management and security of your infrastructure, here are a couple ways to get started:
SaltStack hosted tutorials - https://www.saltstack.com/ss-get-access/
Download Salt Open - https://www.saltstack.com/download-saltstack-automation-engine/

Jerikan is a tool targeted to network teams. It generates configuration files from a source of truth and templates. The deployment is then...