About
Production network automation, written down.
I'm Boyd Tweed, an infrastructure automation engineer. This site is where I write down what actually happens when network automation meets a real, multi-tenant production estate — the merge conflicts, the silent ordering bugs, the migrations that hold thousands of devices in a single transaction.
Most of what I publish here is a war story: a concrete problem, what I tried, what fixed it, and the lesson that generalizes. The stack I live in day to day is Nautobot — Golden Config, SSoT/CMDB reconciliation, SD-WAN design generation, ZTP — plus the CI/CD around it (GitHub Actions, containerized executors).
Everything here is written in my own words about patterns and lessons, not about any employer's proprietary systems. If something I've written helped you, or you want to compare notes, find me on LinkedIn.
What I write about
- Nautobot in production: data models, jobs, plugins, the SSoT pattern
- Golden Config: intended vs actual state, compliance, remediation
- Migrations that can't take downtime
- The pipelines and CI that make all of it repeatable