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Description
The network automation community, for the most part, agrees that to automate the network and higher-level services, we need structured data, ideally stored in a centralized location, often referred to as the Source of Truth (SoT).
We have seen increased advocacy for a better way of governing the data in and their relationships using a design-driven approach. The goal is to move away from managing individual data objects in the SoT towards grouping related data together as a single abstracted entity used for configuring or verifying the network state.
To help explain this approach, we want to present an implementation of the idea that provides a full lifecycle of the design-driven approach. The idea is simple: to offer the network engineers (or consumers, in general) an entry point with minimal input data that is expanded according to the design. The design implementation can then be deployed to the network, updated with different input data, adjusted for the new design revision, and, finally, decommissioned. All of this takes into account data interdependencies (i.e., you can’t change the data that a design owns, or decommission a design that another design depends on).
| Estimated presentation duration | 35-40 mins |
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