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  • in Design
  • 7 min read

Intent based firewall rules

Every company I have worked with has always had a transactional firewall process. Yes there are some that use automations in the backend, but from a customer perspective it works like this:

  • Customer decides they need connectivity through the network.
  • Customer submits a request to allow that connectivity
  • The connectivity is analysed, it is decided if changes are required, the changes are the made
  • The customer then tests the connectivity

Then thats it!

Thats a bit weird though isn't it, normally when something that is critical to the infrastructure you are deploying is done, you want to have some ownership of it.....you want a receipt, or maybe an easy path to follow it up and see if it is still working.

  • in Design
  • 5 min read

Simplifying Network Automation with NetOrca: A Declarative Approach

Introduction

In the modern networking landscape, automation has become a crucial component of managing increasingly complex infrastructures. Traditional network automation methods, often implemented in a non-declarative manner, have served as the backbone for automating repetitive tasks, reducing human error, and improving overall efficiency. However, these methods come with inherent challenges and limitations that can hinder scalability and flexibility.

University IT Infrastructure with NetOrca

Universities are increasingly relying on IT infrastructure to meet the diverse needs of their faculty and students. As both the number of Cloud-based enterprise solutions and the users increase, there is a compelling need for automation and orchestration, and a user-friendly interface accessible to all members of the university community to ensure efficient and effective utilization of resources.

  • in Services
  • 4 min read

Using defined services to target automation spend

Automating the deployment of services within an organisation is an expensive proposition.

Even with today's automation ready infrastructure, to get that automation being used successfully in production requires a large amount of time from expensive integration resources. In addition, the project management infrastructure that needs to go on top of it.

In this article we discuss how defining and offering your services ahead of that automation spend can produce better and more valuable business outcomes.

  • in Services
  • 4 min read

How can your internal customers consume your automated Services?

This is an often overlooked part of any automation programme. These days it is fairly easy to implement the latest technology to automate a piece of infrastructure, there is a module out there for everything and implementing it is a case of getting it tested in a lab and deployed to production.

However, just automating your infrastructure is not good enough. To create real value in an organisation internal customers need to be able to quickly, easily and accurately consume that automation.