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Packet Pushers

From Vibes to Governed:
What a Network Agent Reveals About Spec-Driven Development

LLMs are probabilistic. Infrastructure is not. Get an inside look about what it takes to bridge that gap for real.

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Welcome, Packet Pushers Listeners

We’ve joined the pod more than a dozen times – alongside customers like Fiserv, RUSH, and Lumen – to talk through the real work of orchestrating infrastructure and safely connecting AI agents to production networks. Real engineers on agentic ops, orchestration and the AI era. Every episode, in one place.

Here’s a few of our favorites:

Agentic Ops in Practice

Chris Wade, Itential CTO, defines what an agent actually is on infrastructure: an autonomous system using LLM knowledge to hit goal-oriented outcomes. How teams scale reasoning without losing control.

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An Architect’s Journey

Jesse Ford, Automation Architect at Itential, on the multi-year path from individual scripts to orchestrated operations – and why the payoff isn’t speed, it’s freed-up humans.

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A FinTech Orchestration Story

Michael Wynston, Director of Architecture & Automation at Fiserv, takes Heavy Networking through the jump from point automations to a platform that holds up under financial services pressure. Velocity up. Headcount flat. Compliance kept off the front page. The economics, from someone living it.

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RUSH Rethinks NetOps

Uzair Khan, Manager of Network Services at RUSH University Medical Center, on how the team gave engineers the ability to build real automation without having to be developers first. Building blocks, not scripts. Impact, without intimidation. A healthcare IT story on Network Automation Nerds.

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The Itential Platform: Orchestration for Infrastructure & the AI Era

Every conversation on this page points to the same underlying problem: scripts stop scaling and AI agents need guardrails. Itential is the orchestration layer that ties existing tools together, governs every change, and gives AI agents a safe way to actually act on production infrastructure.

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Orchestrate Across Every Domain

Connect 300+ systems across network, cloud, ITSM, and AI logic into a single orchestration fabric. One platform, every tool, every environment, no rip-and-replace.

Govern Every AI Action

Connect LLMs to infrastructure through the Itential MCP Server, with policy, approvals, and context enforced before an agent takes any action on production.

Validate Every Change, Human or AI

Check configurations against intent, catch drift early, and keep compliance evidence ready across every device, domain, and cloud. Audit-ready by default.

Self-Service Ops, Governed by Default

Turn automations into products teams can run on demand, with governance, stateful orchestration, and AI-assisted execution built in from day one.

Every Itential Episode, Across The Packet Pushers Network

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From Vibes to Governed: Building a Real Network Agent Listen Now
Agentic Ops: How to Scale Reasoning Without Losing Control Listen Now
Governing AI Agents for Real-World Infrastructure Listen Now
Ops to Orchestrated: An Architect’s Journey Listen Now
Bringing AI Reasoning to Infrastructure with Itential FlowAI Listen Now
The Network Engineer’s Evolution: Thinking Like a Product Owner Listen Now
Innovating Healthcare IT: Automating NetOps at RUSH University Medical Center Listen Now
From Automation to Orchestration for a FinTech Network Listen Now
Evolving From Python to Platforms for Network Automation Listen Now
Enabling Self-Service Automation & NetDevOps with Itential Listen Now
Get Scalable Network Automation with Itential Listen Now
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