What Is The Goal of Network Automation/NetDevOps
From The Network Automation Journey by Tony Bourke
December 8, 2025 · 9 min
About this episode
The episode discusses the goals of network automation and how to choose the right tools for achieving those goals.
It's easy to be overwhelmed and see all these network automation tools and wonder... what is even the goal? The tools are there to help us achieve our goals, they're not the goal themselves and I talk about how you can pick which tools makes the most sense for you. Especially as it's easy to see all these new tools and methods and think that
People in this episode
Host: Tony Bourke
Topics covered
- network automation
- NetDevOps
- automation tools
- goal setting
- technology
Keywords
- network automation
- NetDevOps
- automation tools
- technology
- goal setting
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