Automating Golden Configuration for Cloud Networking with Itential

The shift to deploying applications on cloud platforms has increased the utilization of cloud-based services and has created a more complex network environment. Network teams are now tasked with deploying and managing more and more cloud-native networking services to support connecting cloud applications and services at scale. Network teams carry the responsibility to ensure that traditional networks, based on physical devices, are operating securely and optimally by implementing Golden Configuration standards for CLI configurations, and comparing devices, like routers and switches, to these standards. However, the process of auditing configurations to ensure compliance must be applied across the entire network, including those network services being utilized in multiple cloud platforms, but teams lack a modern solution for ensuring network compliance for both on-prem and cloud.

Network automation helps to:

• Apply consistent security configurations across on-prem and cloud-native networks.
• Verify that new and existing cloud-native networking services are correctly configured.
• Create a standard, automated process for applying coordinated configuration updates across any cloud network services.