Automation of network infrastructure
Network infrastructure automation is a comprehensive and innovative service that provides customers with advanced tools to optimize the management, configuration and operation of their network solutions. The service is designed to respect each customer's unique environment and ultimately improve the efficiency of IT teams, as well as the stability and security of the entire infrastructure.
Service description
The complexity, performance and demands on modern IT solutions are constantly increasing, and it is crucial for every organization to eliminate service outages and accelerate the deployment of new applications as much as possible. It is therefore increasingly necessary to automate activities across the entire IT spectrum, not excluding network infrastructure.
At ALEF, our goal is to provide your company with a tailored automation workflow and a set of software components that will enable you to significantly streamline the operation and configuration of your network infrastructure. In addition, by eliminating human errors, you will save significant costs associated with restoring application availability and dealing with unexpected conditions.
At the beginning of the project, we analyze for you the scenarios your network teams come into contact with most often. The output from this analysis becomes the basis for recommendations on which ones make sense to automate. Next, we look at the available sources of information that network teams work with, their reachability via APIs or other types of interfaces, and suggest how to use them most effectively to speed up the execution of defined tasks. In the absence of central databases with information about the network environment (CMBD, IPAM, etc.), we can help you deploy them and connect them to the upcoming automation workflow. After the analysis and design phase, we will implement the automation solution for you and take care of its long-term maintenance.
As part of the project, we can also deliver training for your staff in DevNet areas such as programming languages, orchestration tools, code versioning, or CI/CD tools, in order to further develop competencies in your teams.
Who is the service for?
Small, medium and large organisations that have on-prem and/or cloud-based network infrastructure and other IT systems under their own management.
Main advantages of the service
Increase the efficiency and productivity of network teams
Elimination of human errors and the costs associated with their elimination
Consistency and standardisation of configurations
Fast response to changes
Optimization of resource utilization - HW, SW and human
Increased security of network infrastructure
Scalability
Auditability
Competitive advantage
How is the implementation done?
- Analysis of the customer's network environment, network devices and related information systems
- Analysis of activities and design of scenarios that make sense to automate
- Assistance with the implementation of a central data repository (CMDB, IPAM) if needed
- Customized automation solution design
- Proof of Concept - verification and debugging of the selected workflow
- Development of automation solutions
- Implementation in customer environment
- Client-side approval - acceptance tests
- Support in the operation of the automation platform
- Staff training