It is Imperative to be Declarative
Most automation applies imperative programming as they execute in a specific sequence. This complicates the automation of multi-domain service delivery.
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Cover all the Bases
Multi-domain use cases are the new normal and require an end-to-end automation solution. Most tools in the market have a specific focus and do not suffice.
The Path to Hell is Paved with Good Automation Steps
Ansible got very popular for network automation, but why is there still a large backlog of semi-manual network engineering and service provisioning tasks?
Open-source Release 2020.1
Open-source version 2020.1 of the Inmanta Orchestrator introduces major improvements to the compiler and the OpenAPI specification of the orchestrator.
Open-source Release 2019.3
Open-source version 2019.3 of Inmanta Service Orchestrator introduces improved support for plugin-in extensions to the orchestrator.
Pydantic Puzzlers II
Pydantic is a library to validate JSON documents and converts them into Python objects, based on Python Type Annotations. It works really well, it is easy to use, it supports everything we can possibly expect it to support and saves us a ton of effort. However, there a few less intuitive aspects to it, which […]
Performance Monitoring
In the 2019.2 release, we added built-in performance monitoring to the Inmanta Service Orchestrator. This post explains a bit about the why, what and how. Why performance monitoring? For both operators (who run the software) and developers (who make the software), in-app performance monitoring is important to keep track of application health. If an API […]
Pydantic Puzzlers
Pydantic is a library to validate JSON documents and convert them into Python objects, based on Python Type Annotations. It works really well, it is easy to use, it supports everything we can possibly expect it to support and saves us a ton of effort. I’ve only started using it recently, but I love it. […]
Open-source Release 2019.2
We have just released open-source version 2019.2 of the Inmanta Orchestrator. The big change in this release is the switch from MongoDB to PostgreSQL. When upgrading to 2019.2, please consult the documentation. By moving to PostgreSQL, we have roughly doubled the deployment performance. A second big improvement is that the orchestrator can now report performance […]
Open-source Release 2019.1
We have just released open-source version 2019.1 of the Inmanta Orchestrator. The most exciting new feature is the separation of repairing the infrastructure and deploying changes. Up till now, both processes were always performed. This ensured that when a deploy finished, the entire infrastructure was in the desired state. Because the orchestrator verified the entire […]