The Fat Pipe - Most Popular Packet Pushers Pods HN784: Accelerate Your Network Automation With Gluware Labs and New Ansible Collection (Sponsored)
Jun 6, 2025
Olivier, Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Gluware, explains the product engineering and IDE. Mike Howe, VP of Product Marketing, discusses product strategy and Gluware Labs. They explore platform vs build tradeoffs. They cover no-code apps, a low-code IDE with JSON modeling and JavaScript logic, the new Gluware Labs community and free Community Edition, and Ansible/VS Code tooling.
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Automation Builders Now Drive Vendor Choices
- Network automation is now a deciding factor in purchasing because automation builders carry real influence in vendor selection.
- Mike Howe observed teams realize you can't operate efficiently at scale without delivering automation to production.
Automation Heroes Burn Out Fast
- Relying on a single automation hero is not scalable and leads to burnout and fragile systems.
- Olivier and Mike compared automation heroes to Batman with too many tools on the belt, arguing platforms should give engineers a usable "superpower."
Use A Platform To Capture Quick Automation Wins
- Start with a vendor platform for inventory, drift, audit, and config management to get immediate value without coding.
- Mike Howe recommends using Glueware's out-of-the-box apps to avoid rebuilding common foundations.