Taming the hardware: Infrastructure-as-code for multi-vendor networks

Platform engineering often halts at the physical network edge. This case study details the transformation of a manual, multi-vendor network environment into a fully automated platform using Ansible and Python. The speaker explains how to abstract vendor-specific CLIs into unified IaC definitions and implement automated health checks that verify state post-deployment. Attendees gain a practical roadmap for extending DevOps principles to physical infrastructure, reducing toil by 80% and ensuring network reliability matches cloud agility.