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DevOps 4 Networks
JR Rivers – CEO and Co-Founder
October 14, 2014

DevOps 4 Networks...
... my motivator for Cumulus Networks
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Cumulus Networks Contributions
 All areas of the company
 CTO, GSS, Ceng, CSE, Dev
 Self generated projects
 ptm, ifupdown2, vxfld
 Moving the toolchain
 puppet, ansible, cfengine, and chef work on OS detection
 Used and usable content
 examples, demos, documentation, and direct customer
engagements/training
 Moving the needle on structured IO for existing and cumulus
packages
https://github.com/cumulusnetworks
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The Myth of a Universal Data
Model
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The Myth of a Universal Data Model
Create Localized Truth
Add structured IO to an existing package
Develop tooling to leverage structured IO
Loosely coupled and continually improving
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Ops with Guardrails
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Ops with Guardrails
Bite sized chunks
Defensive programming
Standardize ruthlessly and automate dogmatically
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Thank You!
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