Automating network infrastructure

In cloud environments, network engineers not only configure the networks, but they should also accustom themselves to orchestration tools using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to deploy network infrastructure at scale. This helps in reducing deployment time, minimizes human error when configuring repeatable patterns, and provides ease in lift and shift for your current network infrastructure if it needs to be replicated in a different environment.

IP address management can be controlled and automated using IP Address Management (IPAM) solutions. IPAM solutions help enhancing dynamic allocations of IP addresses, adding/deleting of new and existing CIDRs, automated delivery and record maintenance. Automation to manage your network helps remove delays in on-boarding new applications or growing existing applications, by enabling you to assign IP addresses to your network resources. IPAM solutions can also automatically track critical IP address information, including its assignment attributes, location in your network, and routing and security domain. Reducing the need to manually track or do bookkeeping for your IP addresses and reducing the possibility of errors during IP assignments.