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title: 'Building cloud networks: Terraform or Ansible?'
osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2021/program/proposals/857
beginning: '2021-11-06T10:45:00.000-07:00'
end: '2021-11-06T11:15:00.000-07:00'
resources:
  internet_archive_identifier: SeaGL2021-Francois_Caen-Building_cloud_networks_Terraform_or_Ansible
presenters:
- name: François Caen
  osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/users/1165
  gravatar_id: 70389d5ad512ee877a07563d6e77d21b
  biography: Francois Caen started his career as a SysAdmin at Rackspace. After playing
    with Linux servers for a while, and co-authoring the Linux Toolbox book series,
    he realized that networking is just more fun. As a NetOps engineer, Francois enjoyed
    tinkering with scripting and automation while building and maintaining enterprise
    networks. Francois joined Cisco in 2015 as a Systems Architect in the Public Sector
    Team, and later transitioned to the Global Enterprise Segment, where he assisted
    a Fortune 100 sportswear company in modernizing and automating their network.
    In early 2021, Francois became the Programmability & Automation CoE Lead for Cisco
    Americas Systems Engineering.
- name: Troy Perkins
  affiliation: Cisco Systems, Inc.
  osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/users/1166
  gravatar_id: 4988362443cd5580aad017654d686d80
  biography: Been doing automation/programmability since the early days (screen scraping)
    and love tinkering with various projects.
---

While DevOps folks are deploying cloud apps at cloud speed, traditional network engineers are still hand jamming on their routers' CLI like it's 1999. Let's fix that!

In this session, we will show you how to deploy multi-cloud networks in the Infrastructure-as-Code age using modern tooling. And we'll answer the question in every network engineer's mind once and for all: Terraform or Ansible?
