The DevOps movement has resulted in changes to many traditional processes and tools. One artifact of the movement is treatment of infrastructure data as code, which is different fom previous models. This includes storing items such as device configurations in source control management systems. Some of the benefits of using a source control management system are audit tracking and the ability to roll back to any version that was previously checked-in. The source control system check-in could also trigger other parts of a change/test/release cycle, expanding events to tools such as Jenkins to automatically test and report on the effect the change itself had on the infrastructure.

The solution set for this problem can be applied to multiple network topologies. The devices need to have connectivity to a source control management system.

Open NX-OS Switches Integrate into Configuration Management Workflow