Infrahub: Next-gen data management platform for Design-Driven Automation#

Pete Crocker (OpsMill)

• Why: Network automation source-of-truth is a persistent operational problem. "Design-driven automation" — declarative, design-first intent feeding validation and provisioning — is the current generation's answer to the limits of pure inventory-SoT tools (NetBox-style) and bespoke scripts. Tooling that others can adopt is explicitly what this operator program should surface.
• What: A talk introducing Infrahub, OpsMill's data-management platform for network automation: managing the intended design (schemas, relationships, hierarchical data) and driving automation from it (program text only — no abstract, and the event page shows no presentation materials and "Not scheduled", which suggests this session may have been cut or not yet scheduled; verify before seeking the recording).
• How: Presumably a graph/schema-oriented data model with versioning and constraints, integrated into provisioning pipelines rather than a flat IPAM inventory.
• Where applicable: Any network team building declarative automation. Caveat: the speaker is from the vendor itself, so expect product framing; the transferable content is the design-driven paradigm, which can be evaluated independently of the product.