Heavy Networking 503: Achieve Multi-Domain Network Automation With Itential (Sponsored)

As organizations engage with network automation, they want to be able to leverage their existing automation tools (scripts, Ansible playbooks, orchestrators, etc.) rather than an automation vendor’s specific tool set.
On today’s Heavy Networking, we talk with sponsor Itential about its network automation approach, where you can take what you’re already using and incorporate it into a holistic automation strategy.
Itential enables automation across multiple domains–physical, virtual, and cloud–and takes a low-code approach so that your engineers don’t have to become developers.
Our guest is Chris Wade, Itential’s co-founder and CTO.
We discuss:

* Itential’s approach to multi-domain automation
* How Itential incorporates existing scripts, tools, and orchestration systems
* Integrating cloud and network strategies
* The transition from CLI to API
* The role of Swagger and JSON schemas
* Use cases and real-world examples

Show Links:
Itential
Developer.itential.io
Itential on Twitter

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Heavy Networking is an unabashedly nerdy dive into all things networking. Described by one listener as "verbal white papers," the weekly episodes feature network engineers, industry experts, and vendors sharing useful information to keep your professional knowledge sharp and your career growing. Hosts Greg Ferro, Ethan Banks and Drew Conry-Murray cut through the marketing spin to explore what works—and what doesn't—in networking today, while keeping an eye on what's ahead for the industry. On air since 2010, Heavy Networking is the flagship show of the Packet Pushers podcast network.