Video: Separate Data from Code
After explaining the challenges of data center fabric deployments, Dinesh Dutt focused on a very important topic I covered in Week#3 of the Building Network Automation Solutions online course: how do you separate data (data model describing data center fabric) from code (Ansible playbooks and device configurations)
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