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Time to play I Spy: Network Automation edition (to build your network automation business case) For a full how-to on using your powers of observation to win budget, see Alex Henthorn-Iwane's #AutoCon4 talk: https://lnkd.in/gMURiCGK

Automating a NVIDIA-based AI data center from the ground up: the true story is coming next week. Solutions Architects Alex Gittings and Mikhail Yohman will walk through how they delivered quickly on an infrastructure build while keeping flexibility and avoiding vendor lock-in. Yes, you'll get the recording afterwards if you register. 😉 But only those on the live call also get the chance to participate in the open Q+A. Bring your questions and pick our brains! 🧠 Thu, Jan 22 9am PT / Noon ET / 6pm CET Register here: https://lnkd.in/gXFYX48E

New year, new Infrahub! We recently released Infrahub 1.6 and 1.7, bringing improvements in usability, data governance, and platform reliability to help infrastructure teams operate at scale with less friction. A few highlights: 🔎 Audit metadata on every object (1.7): Metadata now tracks who created or updated each object and when, providing accountability and making reviews, debugging, and governance workflows easier. 🔗 Profiles can now support relationships in addition to attributes (1.7): This helps you express complete infrastructure patterns in one place and makes it easier to apply the same pattern consistently across many objects. 🎛️ Interactive dashboard (1.6): A new home page surfaces proposed changes, Git sync status, branches, recent activity, and tasks in one view, making it easier to triage reviews. 🔀 Branch management improvements (1.6): A new branch report provides visibility to ease maintenance decisions, while support for selective synchronization of Git branches and explicit merge commits gives teams more control over Git-backed workflows. In 1.7, we also upgraded critical backend dependencies to ensure optimal performance, security, and long-term maintainability. More details on the blog: 🗒️ Infrahub 1.6: https://lnkd.in/gEBxPum5 🗒️ Infrahub 1.7: https://lnkd.in/gxcfgsMm

Event-driven automation might sound complex but it's simply the execution of a pattern we know well: > If this, then that > If A happens, do B "That" and "B" happen without humans in the loop. So how do you build an EDA workflow into your system? The latest tutorial from Suresh Vina gives you a step-by-step on setting it up. We've used Infrahub and Ansible in the example to handle an interface status change. When the status changes in Infrahub, Ansible automatically updates the device configuration. We kept the example simple on purpose, to get you started, but the pattern can be extended to any automation task where a change in one system should trigger an action in another. The full walkthrough includes working code and a GitHub repo to build this yourself. Try it: https://lnkd.in/g4ZRH6YT

Are you prepared to face the final boss? To make a business case for your network automation budget? For help in your quest, see the full recording of Alex Henthorn-Iwane's #AutoCon4 talk: https://lnkd.in/gMURiCGK

Look, we know what you're thinking. Another newsletter? Hard pass. And we get it. If we had a nickel for every vendor newsletter promising "game-changing insights" that was really just thinly veiled product spam... well, we'd have a lot of nickels. It's why we built the Ottermatic newsletter differently. Every other Tuesday, our team rounds up what actually matters in infrastructure automation. The stuff we're using or talking about. Battle-tested strategies. Tools worth your time. Real conversations with people who are deep in the trenches. We filter out the noise to give you the signal. One reader called it "a rare blend of practical tips and deeper thoughts." That's exactly what we're going for! If you're working in infrastructure automation—whether you're hands-on keyboard or making the business case for it—you might actually like this one. Worth a shot? https://lnkd.in/giumZ-an

On Jan 22, we’re sharing real-world lessons from automating a complete NVIDIA AI data center from the ground up. From first architectural decisions to first deliverables, Solutions Architects Alex Gittings and Mikhail Yohman will walk through how to deliver quickly on an infrastructure build while keeping flexibility and avoiding vendor lock-in. Expect practical tactics you can apply now to your own automation projects. We’ll also share a real-world timeline of key milestones. Save your seat for this live session with open Q+A. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gXFYX48E Be there or be tubular. 😉

2026 is going to be a banger! Let’s gooooooo!