Anne Baretta got pretty far in his automation story: after starting with configuration templates and storing network inventory into a database, he tackled the web UI. What’s next? How about a few auto-generated network diagrams?

Notes

• We covered the magic behind network diagrams in our network automation course.
• For whatever reason, I see numerous networking engineers focusing on generating useful network diagrams. Wasn’t that problem solved ages ago with miraculous single-pane-of-glass network management software?