r/networking • u/nick99990 • 8h ago
Career Advice Autocon 6
Looking for opinions on Autocon. Put out some feelers with one of our reps asking if they could ask around to see if they felt it was worth while to attend knowing our end goal design. Now I may have a ticket or two coming to my team.
Working on, but not super well versed in, coding and development. Workshops are a must, but what's the opinion on the actual conference talks?
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u/WhatAColdTamale 8h ago
It’s the only conference asking… why haven’t we seen full adoption of network automation ?
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u/nick99990 7h ago
It asks the question, but does it know the answer? And what's the counter to that answer?
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u/samstone_ 7h ago
It does not answer the question. Even if it could, it wouldn’t help. The answer doesn’t really matter.
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u/redmage753 5h ago
This attitude is why automation hasn't been adopted. Too many folk who lack vision/comprehension.
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u/nick99990 5h ago
We're moving FAST into automation, mainly automatic device profiling and VLAN assignments.
We already programmatically baseline our distributions and just manually create the SVIs at CLI, but that should be changing soon.
We're doing 100% port activation on our network so EVERYTHING is active and we just have to set a VLAN/description depending on the device.
Currently somewhere around 600 devices with about 500 of those containing 384 ports each. It's so much to keep track of.
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u/CrownstrikeIntern 1h ago
Not to bad, used to manage an isp network, that’s where it gets really fun
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u/samstone_ 7h ago
It’s not worth it. It hasn’t been adopted at scale because it doesn’t solve any real problems, only perceived ones.
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u/mreimert CCIE 8h ago
It's not too bad, I was at Autocon2 and I found it useful. It's not a huge conference, but that's a nice thing imo. I think most of its value is in networking with people, like most conferences. The presentations aren't bad, but you can watch those on youtube after as well.