For NetDevOps teams, building automations is a foundational process. In this session, Dan Sullivan, Principal Solutions Engineer at Itential, demonstrates how Itential’s low-code automation canvas enables rapid creation of end-to-end network automations across multi-vendor and hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure with capabilities such as:
- Low-code visual canvas for building orchestration workflows that can leverage integrated systems as drag-and-drop tasks within a workflow.
- JSON Schema-based data transformations to manipulate and translate data between API tasks in an automation workflow.
- Reusable templates that use Jinja2 to construct network configurations and API payloads.
- Command templates for reusable sets of tasks.
- JSON-based forms to provide a layer of input validation when exposing automations to an end user.
Demo Notes
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00:00 Introduction to Building Network Automations with Itential
01:33 Demo Use Case Overview
02:06 Introduction to Itential’s Visual Workflow Canvas
03:11 Generating a JSON Form
05:15 Building a Data Transformation Step Between API Calls
10:09 Using Templates to Generate Config
11:25 Defining & Sequencing Tasks to Build the Automation
16:31 Q&A Discussion: IP Format Validation & Dynamic Forms
