Where AI meets network ops, without the gatekeeping.

A free Slack community for engineers, architects, and curious minds who want to explore how AI agents, MCP, and agentic automation are reshaping infrastructure operations.

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WHAT IS THE VIBEOPS FORUM?

The practitioner-led community that other forums wouldn’t let exist.

VibeOps started because every other networking community was aggressively anti-AI. Want to share an agent you built? Dismissed. Discuss MCP for network ops? Dogpiled. VibeOps was built to fix that – a space where real configs, real agents, and real topologies are the currency, and AI-forward thinking is the norm, not the exception.

AI agents MCP Network automation VibeOps Agentic ops Prompt engineering Vibe coding pyATS · Ansible · NAPALM

"I was getting tired of being shut down every time I tried to talk about AI or MCP in network spaces. So I built my own."

John Capobianco – Head of AI & DevRel, Itential // Founder, VibeOps Forum

WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE?

Real conversations. Real work.

VibeOps channels cover the full spectrum of where AI meets network operations.

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Tooling

MCP servers, pyATS, Ansible, NAPALM, and Nornir wired into AI agents — shared, tested, improved.

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Agents in production

Claude, GPT, and Gemini running real network ops workflows. What works, what breaks, what's next.

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Labs & demos

CML, ContainerLab, and GNS3 VibeOps setups. Share your topology. Get feedback from people who've built the same thing.

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Prompt engineering for ops

How to write instructions that network agents actually follow. Practical, tested, production-grade.

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Change management

AI-gated ServiceNow, GAIT audit trails, digital twins. Governance that keeps humans in the loop.

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Protocols through an AI lens

OSPF, BGP, VXLAN – examined and automated through agent frameworks. The protocols aren't going anywhere. The way we manage them is.

@netclaw
A live AI agent lives inside the forum

NetClaw is an open-source, Claude-based network ops agent inside VibeOps the slack space. Mention @netclaw to interact with it directly — ask questions, run tasks, or see agentic ops in action in a live environment.

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WHO ITS FOR

20-year veterans and people who just discovered LLMs last month – both belong here.

No gatekeeping. No question too basic. VibeOps was built so that newcomers and seasoned experts sit in the same room and both feel at home.

Network engineers

Replace repetitive CLI work with conversational automation

NetDevOps engineers

Build and share MCP-powered toolchains

Platform & SRE teams

Event-driven, agentic incident response

Network architects

Design AI-native operational models

Curious engineers

Learn how AI agents actually work in a production network – safely

#FlowAI
Direct access to the people building FlowAI

One of VibeOps's most significant advantages: the #FlowAI channel gives you a direct line to Itential developers and leaders. Ask questions, share feedback, explore integrations, and follow the roadmap – no support tickets, no marketing filters.

COMMON QUESTIONS

What people ask before they join

What exactly is VibeOps? ▾
VibeOps is the intersection of "vibe coding" and infrastructure operations — using natural language, AI agents, and MCP to drive network automation instead of writing scripts by hand. It's a philosophy, a practice, and now a community. The VibeOps Forum is the Slack workspace where practitioners building in this space share their work, ask questions, and push the field forward.
Do I need to be an AI expert to join? ▾
Not at all. VibeOps is explicitly built for enthusiasts, not just experts. If you're a network engineer curious about what AI agents can actually do in production, you belong here. The culture is generosity over gatekeeping.
What is MCP and why does it matter for network ops? ▾
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the standard that lets AI models talk to external tools, data sources, and systems. For network ops, it's what makes it possible for an AI agent to actually query a device, run a diff, or trigger a change — not just talk about it.
Is this a vendor pitch channel for Itential? ▾
No. VibeOps is practitioner-led, not vendor-driven. Members discuss tools across the ecosystem — Claude, GPT, Gemini, pyATS, Ansible, NAPALM, Nornir, and more. Itential has a dedicated #FlowAI channel where their team is available for direct, unfiltered conversation — but that's a feature, not the point of the forum.
Who runs VibeOps? ▾
John Capobianco — Head of AI & Developer Relations at Itential, author of Automate Your Network and the Cisco Press pyATS book — founded and runs the forum. He's an active member, not just a figurehead.
Is it free? ▾
Yes. VibeOps is free to join and open to everyone. There's no paywall, no premium tier, no catch.
Why now? Isn't the space still early? ▾
That's exactly why now. VibeOps is being built before the textbooks catch up. The people in this community are the ones writing the playbook — joining early means you help define what VibeOps actually means in practice.

The movement is early.
Join before the textbooks catch up.

Free. Open to everyone. No question too basic, no background required.
Start with #FlowAI or dive into any channel that matches where you are.

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Open to network engineers, architects, automation teams, and the genuinely curious.