Arista Networks announced a comprehensive network automation solution with the Arista Continuous Integration (CI) Pipeline. Built on Arista's EOS Network Data Lake (NetDL), the Arista CI Pipeline helps enterprise customers adopt a modern network operating model. This approach delivers an agile, data-driven change management process for the network, enabling faster, more reliable deployment with reduced operational time and expense.

modern network operating model provides operational efficiency and cost savings. It is based on cloud networking principles, including repeatable design patterns, automated operations via software control, and an open, flexible architecture. To achieve this operating model, enterprises may attempt to build their own automation infrastructure but often struggle with the required resourcing, skill sets, and associated maintenance effort.

This new Arista CI Pipeline addresses these challenges, enabling enterprises to achieve a modern network operating model, consisting of: · Continuous desig · Continuous integratio· Continuous testing, Continuous Design Arista's Validated Designs (AVD) are design principles consumable as code, providing a continuous design framework. As a part of the Arista CI Pipeline, AVDs accelerate the transformation of customer's operating model and improve the reliability of customer networks with the following benefits: Flexibility with Open Data Models: Extensible fabric-wide network models, simplifying configuration, delivering consistency, and reducing errors Simplification through Multi-Domain Automation: A framework that can automate the data center, campus or WAN, enabled by a consistent EOS software image and management platform Comprehensive Workflows: Automating the full life cycle of network provisioning from config generation to pre and post-deployment validation, and self-documentation of the network.