This webinar will take users through a brief journey to introduce imperative- and configuration-driven automation, and how they can move to declarative automation where we ask ‘what’ to automate rather than ‘how’. We are using a tool called Terraform to achieve this, and currently developing Terraform Junos providers with the initial release for QFX Series switches being set for Q2/2019.
In this online session we will cover a simple use case showing the difference between an imperative lead approach and the powerful gains achieved by using the declarative approach. By the end of the webinar, attendees will understand the CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) pattern used and its enormous power for automation pipelines.
Demonstrations will be provided on the webinar with links so attendees can repeat in their own time.
Introduction to declarative automation
Difference from imperative automation
Introduction to Terraform
Exploration of CRUD
Observing a CI/CD pipeline with declarative