PipeConf: Uma Arquitetura Integrada para Configuração Automatizada de Ativos de Rede Heterogêneos
Abstract
The manual management of network assets is susceptible to configuration errors, lack of standardization, a large amount of repetitive work and little or no traceability of changes over time. The Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach makes it possible to automate the process of configuring resources such as operating systems, network services, containers and applications, by treating them as software and allowing standardization and configuration rollback. This paper proposes an integrated architecture based on different software tools that use the IaC approach, in order to automate the configuration of network assets, considering different models and manufacturers. A quantitative analysis shows the architecture's efficiency in response time and scalability. The architecture achieved a proportional gain of 83% in the average response time to manage 128 assets, with no significant increase in processing and memory usage.
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