Automating Network Service Management with DevOpsOrchestrator

• Ramon dos R. Fontes UFRN
• Thiago de A. Lima UFRN

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbrc_estendido.2024.2291

Abstract

The management of services in a computer network requires manual effort to maintain the infrastructure. Typically, network administrators need to access multiple servers, install various software, and configure numerous files manually. This manual approach often results in errors, impacting the availability of services. The infrastructure as code approach emerges as a solution to minimize errors associated with traditional service management. In this context, this work introduces DOO, acronym for DevOpsOrchestrator, an integrated platform that utilizes infrastructure as code to automate service management.

References

Bertrand, B., Armanet, S., Christensson, J., Curri, A., Harrisson, A., and Mudingay, R. (2020). ICS Infrastructure Deployment Overview at ESS. In Proc. ICALEPCS’19, pages 875–879. DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-WEAPP04.

Brikman, Y. (2017). Terraform: Up and running, first edit. O’Reilly Media.

Hariyadi, I. P. and Marzuki, K. (2020). Implementation of configuration management virtual private server using ansible. MATRIK: Jurnal Manajemen, Teknik Informatika dan Rekayasa Komputer, 19(2):347–357.

Jiang, Y. and Adams, B. (2015). Co-evolution of infrastructure and source code-an empirical study. In 2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, pages 45–55. IEEE.

Kundnani, S. K. (2019). Delivering network automation - cisco.

Masek, P., Stusek, M., Krejci, J., Zeman, K., Pokorny, J., and Kudlacek, M. (2018). Unleashing full potential of ansible framework: University labs administration. In 2018 22nd conference of open innovations association (FRUCT), pages 144–150. IEEE.

McGhee, E. J., Krobatsch, T., and Milton, S. (2022). Netinfra - a framework for expressing network infrastructure as code. In Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing, PEARC ’22, New York, NY, USA. Association for Computing Machinery.

Morris, K. (2016). Infrastructure as code: managing servers in the cloud. ”O’Reilly Media, Inc.”.

Pires, A., Jr., P. M., Pessoa, D., Matos, F., and Santos, A. (2021). Pipeconf: Uma arquitetura integrada para configuração automatizada de ativos de rede heterogêneos. In XXVI WGRS, pages 110–123, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.

Rodosek, G. D. (2002). A Framework for IT Service Management. PhD thesis, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Shah, J. A. and Dubaria, D. (2019). Netdevops: A new era towards networking & devops. In 2019 IEEE 10th UEMCON, pages 0775–0779. IEEE.