Next-Gen Data Management for Design-Driven Automation [NONOG 8]

In this talk presented at NONOG 8 in Oslo, OpsMill Product Manager Wim Van Deun shows how to make design-driven automation real by unifying customer-facing service (CFS) intent and resource-facing service (RFS) implementation in a single, versioned graph. Service abstraction breaks when CFS data and RFS implementation live in different systems. Wim maps Infrahub to the Network Automation Forum reference architecture and focuses on the building blocks that close the gap: → Flexible schema defined in YAML so you can model services the way your business actually defines them, with an auto-generated GraphQL API and UI → Declarative, idempotent Generators that translate service intent into technical objects without losing relationships so you can evolve services safely → Artifacts to render device configs and other outputs from data, keeping configs tied to the service and implementation that produced them → Built-in version control with branches and Proposed Changes so you can review diffs, enforce policy with CI checks, and query history 00:00 NONOG host intro 00:40 Company context and agenda 03:24 Infrahub in the NAF intent layer 05:11 What service abstraction means 07:28 The scripting pitfall where inputs and relationships are lost 08:43 Why a traditional SoT isn’t enough 10:17 Lifecycle operations need to link CFS data with RFS data 11:32 Three approaches and their tradeoffs 13:43 Flexible schema to model services and relationships 16:36 Generators that are declarative and idempotent 20:17 Artifacts to generate configs from data 21:35 Version control with branches and time travel 23:58 Proposed Changes reviews and diffs 25:34 CI pipeline and custom checks 28:32 Q&A begins . . . . . Infrahub from OpsMill is the AI-ready data management platform for powering reliable network and infrastructure automation at scale.