Open Networking Summit Europe 2018

Configuration and verification of network devices is one of the last areas that automation has not yet made significant inroads. Gartner estimates that fewer than 10% of organizations today use any sort of pervasive network automation tool. We believe there is a huge opportunity for new approaches here, starting with taking a devops approach to security of network devices – firewalls, switches, routers, and so on.

In this talk, we will introduce the open-source InSpec language and show how it can be used to validate network configurations, such as those defined on Cisco IOS devices as well as software-defined network configurations in the AWS, Azure and Google clouds. We’ll show how this language allows for highly-customizable yet readable network compliance policy that can be shared between network engineers, software developers and system administrators. Expect live demos.