It is becoming more common for network teams to be responsible for cloud-based networking as well as traditional on-premises networking, with cloud platforms like AWS now a critical part of IT infrastructure for many organizations. However, automating across both traditional and cloud networking can be difficult, as teams often think a different set of tools will be required for automation in each domain.
The Itential Automation Platform provides network teams with a unified, integrated set of tools to quickly build automations for every network domain, including the deployment and day-to-day changes of cloud infrastructure. By leveraging the freely available resources in Itential’s Pre-Built Library along with the platform’s low-code workflow canvas, network teams can build automations that work across both cloud and data center networks all from one place.
In this demo, Jerry Dollens, Senior Solutions Architect at Itential, shows you step-by-step how to:
- Utilize Itential’s Pre-Built Library for rapid integration to AWS Cloud Platform.
- Build and test Data Transformations to format data for API calls.
- Create a workflow to provision a new VPC and EC2 instance.
- Publish the workflow and run the automation, using a JSON Form for data input.
Demo Notes
(So you can skip ahead, if you want.)
00:00 Introduction
00:19 Why Network Teams Need to Know AWS Cloud Automation
1:12 Demo Overview
2:12 Overview of Automation Workflow for VPC & EC2 Instance
3:30 Build & Test Data Transformation to Format Data for API Calls
5:46 Build Automation Workflow for a New VPC and EC2 Instance
9:19 Run Automation to Provision VPC & EC2 Instance
12:00 Review of Creation of Apache Web Server EC2 Instance
12:30 Review VPC in Configuration Manager