DENOG MeetUp 2023-01

It's 2023 so everything is automated in our network's because we're all so cool, we're all even using Python and Go instead of BASH and expect, but do you know when to implicitly model your infrastructure vs explicitly model it? You have network design standards, but do you have coding standards too? Do you ever have to check the output of your scripts to check they do what you expected them to do? I come from a mixed software/networking background as opposed to a pure networking background, and I'm currently working on the deployment of a greenfield network and automation stack. I will try to share some software best practices with the networking community now that we're all "NREs", right? ;)