War stories and field notes on production network automation — Nautobot, Golden Config, SSoT, SD-WAN, and the pipelines that hold it all together.https://devnetauto.com/https://devnetauto.com/posts/when-you-cant-fix-the-source-fix-the-sync/https://devnetauto.com/posts/when-you-cant-fix-the-source-fix-the-sync/Most of us don't get to design our source of truth -- we inherit it, flawed and inconsistent. Here's what I did when the data was wrong, the people who owned it wouldn't fix it, and I needed accurate data anyway.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://devnetauto.com/posts/hello-devnetauto/https://devnetauto.com/posts/hello-devnetauto/A place to write down what production network automation actually looks like — the failures included.Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://devnetauto.com/posts/source-of-truth-is-a-discipline/https://devnetauto.com/posts/source-of-truth-is-a-discipline/Automation is only as good as the data you feed it. After years of building on network sources of truth — and finding out how wrong 'trusted' data can be — I've come to think the database is the easy part. The discipline of keeping it true is the whole job.Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT