WeAreDevelopers LIVE • Dec 10, 2020

How Cisco embraced a DevOps culture within its network engineering team

Stuart Clark

Cisco slashed hardware provisioning from 36 hours to 10 minutes by treating network configuration as software development. Discover how GitOps and CI/CD transformed their fragile engineering workflows.

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