@danieldibswe @Peter_Paluch Well, it's very hard to approach this without sounding disrespectful, I respect him enormously and more than the person I respect his experience and insight. But even though he makes some great and solid points, the message doesn't agree with me. I will try to explain my own view @danieldibswe @Peter_Paluch First of all it's a specific case (network architect) but there are no specifics, so we are generalizing a bit when I think we shouldn't. Every case is unique and any advice can be "right" or "wrong" depending on the context. But lets stay with what we have.

Started watching the recording for the NSO recording from @netdevopslive with @kecorbin, and went back to the last season session as well. The more I take a look at what these people have been doing with NSO, PyATS & Genie, and the efforts by the Devnet team, I realize what that "evengelist" term was about: These efforts have resulted in miraculous results compared to what the rest of us are used to,

We are in the process of upgrading our DC Network Cores. That has the prereq of changing enclosures for some very critical gear providing equally critical services, so a lot of DR actions were taking place during the previous weekends.. Part1 #devnet #netmiko As usual, my team mate prepared the command sequences, I reviewed them with her, and we got them ready for execution on the big days. On the eve of the big changes, I sat down and wrote python netmiko scripts for every action: Part2 #devnet #netmiko