Demo

Automating Cloud Network Infrastructure Provisioning & Management with Itential

Due to the rapid deployment of applications, enterprise networks teams today are faced with an increasing number of network change requests that must be completed in a short period of time. When these applications are deployed on a cloud platform like AWS, the rate of change requests and expectation for immediate results only increases which only puts more burden on network teams.

To meet these demands, network teams need the ability to rapidly create automations that can operate with both traditional on-prem networks and newer cloud-native network infrastructure. By leveraging the Itential Automation Platform, you can easily integrate with any cloud platform at the API level to build automations that can provision and manage ANY cloud network infrastructure or service.

In this demo, see how Itential can:

  • Rapidly integrate with AWS and other cloud platforms.
  • Understand cloud APIs and documentation for automation.
  • Create and modify foundational network elements like VPCs.
  • Create and modify interconnect services like Transit Gateways.
  • Query and update network services like DNS and Load Balancing.

Demo Notes

(So you can skip ahead, if you want.)

00:00 Demo Overview
04:14 Understanding Cloud API Tasks in Automation Studio
07:19 Automating New VPC Creation & Query Response Data for VPC ID
14:29 Automating New Subnet Creation with VPC ID & Query for Subnet ID
18:39 Automating New Transit Gateway with Data Transformation
21:33 Evaluating the State of Transit Gateway Using Describe Task & Looping
26:06 Automating Attaching VPC to a Transit Gateway Using Data Transformations
32:09 Overview of Full Automation Using Reusable Child Work Flows
37:20 Reviewing Form for Data Input & JSON Output
38:16 Overview & Testing Data Transformation to Create Formatted Output
42:10 Running the Automation & Reviewing in Operations Manager
43:51 Verifying Creation of New Transit Gateway
46:10 Verifying Creation of New VPC A
47:44 Verifying Creation of VPC A Attachment to Transit Gateway
48:38 Verifying Creation of New VPC B
50:07 Verifying Creation of VPC B Attachment to Transit Gateway
50:56 Overview of Automating VPC Route Creation & Similar Features