What is this about?

Automating the datacenter as if you were automating the cloud! Juniper Apstra is able to drop itself into the networking side of things in order to orchestrate the network. Apstra has the ability to build the network from OOB to the different subnets and networks that are used. Using Terraform you can build a declarative state that can be validated via Apstra.

Why does this matter?

According to Gartner in order to succeed at digital transformation you would need to automate and transform your network. With these solutions you are able to build networks including full spine and leaf networks in order to deploy all of the solutions.

What it does!

Using Terraform, the demonstration will show orchestration from Apstra, including some linux VMs, some OOB networks. Apstra is able to speak to the OOB networks so it should be able to talk to everything that is within the datacenter. It’s good to keep in mind that a blueprint in Apstra is an already built environment or as some would think of it as a deployment. After the code is deployed then you would have your blueprint. Within the demonstration what we were able to see was an intent being created via Terraform, and then the deployment of spine leaf, as well as application deployment and then moving the load balancer into AWS which was absolutely insane!

Github for the demonstration found here!:

https://github.com/chrismarget-j/cfd18