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Gain end-to-end visibility, service assurance and continuously audit your entire cloud estate with Forward Enterprise and Forward Cloud

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Delivering vulnerability management, attack surface management, and stronger security posture through the digital twin model

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Gain end-to-end visibility, service assurance and continuously audit your entire cloud estate with Forward Enterprise and Forward Cloud

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Prevent configuration drift and expedite troubleshooting with unparalleled path verification

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Workflow Automation/Integration |

Nov 21, 2019

Closing the Loop on Automation: Forward Networks + Ansible

In my previous ONUG blog post Query Your Network like a Database, I talked about how companies are embracing Network Automation in order to become more agile. I described how Network Automation can be very powerful but frighteningly dangerous without a proper safety guard. I explained what the Forward Networks Network Query Engine is and […]

But now I’ll explain how customers can build a complete network automation and verification solution with Ansible and Forward Networks.

Ansible (by Red Hat) is a simple, powerful and agentless tool used by many customers to automate the deployment and configurations of applications, servers and network devices.

Forward Networks’ flagship platform, Forward Enterprise, documents, searches, verifies, and predicts the behavior of your network by creating an always-accurate software copy of your entire network infrastructure for both on-prem and cloud.

With available REST APIs, it easily integrates into existing network management workflow and tools.

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Fabrizio Maccioni

Fabrizio Maccioni is the Director of Technical Marketing at Forward Networks. Fabrizio focuses on Network Device Programmability, Automation, and Application Hosting.