THE OPSMILL BLOG

Business strategy & technical deep dives for powering infrastructure automation

Technical

Introducing the Infrahub Marketplace

We launched Infrahub Marketplace to give users access to curated, battle-tested schemas and schema collections. It's the first product we've built end-to-end with AI-driven development.

Alex Gittings

Aug 13, 2026

Business lens

Why Your Network Is the Bottleneck to Every Strategic Initiative

Is your network your bottleneck? Here are 4 signs that you might need to rethink your infrastructure strategy, and 3 foundational elements of a platform that can solve it.

Karen Gallantry

Aug 13, 2026

Technical

How We Embrace Spec-Driven Development at OpsMill

Even if you’re not an engineer, you know how ubiquitous AI-driven development is. You’ve heard about Cursor’s meteoric rise in popularity. You’ve seen the way people geek out about what they’re building with Claude Code (so much faster than they could before) on Reddit, X, Substack, and pretty much every tech-adjacent podcast. Which makes it […]

Dimitris Saltaferis

Aug 4, 2026

Business lens

Stop Looking for a Source of Truth. Your Network Needs a Source of Intent.

NSoT (Network Source of Truth) has become the standard industry shorthand for the centralized database tasked with holding your network configuration data. But as enterprise networks grow increasingly complex, hyper-distributed, and software-driven, leadership teams must confront a difficult architectural reality: is a “Source of Truth” actually the right framework for managing infrastructure data? At Opsmill, […]

Karen Gallantry

Jul 29, 2026

Product release

Build AI data center fabrics from design intent

An AI data center fabric is not simply a collection of switch configurations. It is a connected design spanning hundreds of switches, thousands of interfaces, multiple layers of topology, and an addressing hierarchy that must remain consistent across every pod and rack. The network team operates against a demanding timeline. GPU and HBM infrastructure begins […]

Wim Van Deun

Jul 28, 2026

Automation strategy

Why Managing Infrastructure Data Demands a Knowledge Graph Approach

Large, complex networks and data center infrastructure pose a scaling challenge for organizations trying to sustain sound automation. Effectively automating complex networks requires going beyond capturing and managing data about what exists and how it should be configured. Data management also needs to represent the complex mesh of relationships among components, as well as the […]

Pete Crocker

Jul 22, 2026

Business lens

The Infrastructure Data Evolution: Moving from Point Solutions to Programmable Platforms

For IT leadership, the technical mandate of the last decade has been to automate network operations to eliminate human error, slash provisioning times, and match the agility of the cloud. To get there, some enterprises adopted a Network Source of Truth (NSoT), a centralized database designed to serve as the master digital blueprint of the […]

Karen Gallantry

Jul 21, 2026

Technical

How to Automatically Run Reachability Checks on Every Network Change

You’d never make a change to your network without running it through ample checks first: Customer traffic must never bypass the inspection layer. EU data must stay in the EU. The audit data store must never be reachable from the guest network. But are you really checking everything? Even complex Python scripts that you continuously […]

Iddo Cohen

Jul 3, 2026

Product release

Introducing Graph Traversal in Infrahub

Infrastructure teams are increasingly using agents to help plan changes, answer dependency questions, and keep infrastructure aligned with intent. But that only works if the underlying data is connected, trustworthy, and rich enough for both engineers and agents to reason about relationships. Infrahub has always stored your data in a graph, where the relationships between […]

Alex Gittings

Jul 2, 2026

OpsMill news

OpsMill is the New Steward of Nornir

I’m thrilled to share that OpsMill is becoming the steward of the Nornir project. Over the last eight years, Nornir has become foundational for a lot of infrastructure teams. It gave people a Python-native way to orchestrate infrastructure operations and build automation workflows without introducing a whole new way of working. It earned that place. […]

Damien Garros

Jun 29, 2026

Product release

Infrahub 1.10: Graph Traversal, Smarter Automation, and Agent-Ready Workflows

Running a network means knowing how everything connects, managing who can change it, and keeping automation reliable as your environment grows. Infrahub 1.10 introduces new ways to explore network dependencies, simplify identity and access, make automation more predictable, and bring agents into how you build with and operate on Infrahub data. Understand network dependencies Modern […]

Yvonne Jouffrault

Jun 24, 2026

Automation strategy

Struggling With Network Automation? Here’s Your Roadmap

In theory, AIOps sounds great. Tell an agent what to do, and boom your network builds and fixes itself. But we’re nowhere near that yet. Unless they’re assigned a super narrow task, agents hallucinate, they break. At the same time, the pressure to use AI isn’t letting up. So people keep building “assistants” no one […]

Damien Garros

Jun 23, 2026