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Lesson 2: Configuration management

Lesson 2: Configuration management

(bright subtle music) - [Instructor] In a large organization, we might have different IT departments. We might have the developers that are doing the coding and writing the applications and programs, and we might also have a Network Operations Team that's responsible for rolling out configuration changes for our network devices, and doing troubleshooting and monitoring, and there's a framework or a model that describes how these two different IT departments can work together. It's called the DevOps Lifecycle, where the Development Team, the Dev, and Network Operations, Ops, work together to continually update and improve our network. And in our next video we'll check out the DevOps lifecycle, then we'll take a look at a couple of different configuration management tools, one of which is Ansible, and we can write Ansible code that can go out and configure our network devices, and this can also work on some of our legacy Cisco network devices that don't inherently have knowledge of SDN,…

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