THE OPSMILL BLOG

Category: 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, OpsMill co-founder and CEO
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Automation-first, not asset-first

Across the industry, infrastructure tools are leaning hard into asset inventory, pulling procurement, purchase orders, shipments, and RMAs into their platform. We’re going the other way, on purpose. Infrahub is the automation-first source of truth for your infrastructure. It has a fundamentally different job than tracking what you bought, when a warranty expires, which cost […]

Pete Crocker, OpsMill Director Solutions Architecture
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Building an Agentic Intent Data Foundation for with Infrahub

Network and infrastructure teams are under pressure to move toward agentic automation. The long-term goal is ambitious: AI agents that can handle provisioning, service fulfillment, VLAN allocation, and drift remediation in natural language, without a human in the loop for every step. In the short term, most organizations are still developing trust in agents, so […]

Damien Garros, OpsMill co-founder and CEO
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Why Automation and AIOps Need a New Data Management Architecture

Data management architecture that stresses rigorous governance is the only way to automation & AIOps success. Here's why.
Pete Crocker, OpsMill Director Solutions Architecture
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The NAF Automation Framework Is the Industry Blueprint We’ve Been Waiting For

The network automation framework is a blueprint with 6 building blocks to design automation systems that work at any scale or maturity.
Damien Garros, OpsMill co-founder and CEO
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Schema-Driven Design Is the Key to Unlocking AI in Automation

Systems built on a schema-driven design provide clear, structured data and safe paths for AI agents to perform reliably at scale.
Damien Garros, OpsMill co-founder and CEO
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How to Choose the Right Infrastructure Automation Tools

Learn how to choose infrastructure automation tools that build trust, foster adoption, and strengthen your automation stack.
Pete Crocker, OpsMill Director Solutions Architecture
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Building Trust in Automation: The 6+3+3 Framework for Success

Explore the key principles and design foundations to create reliable, user-friendly automation systems that inspire confidence and adoption.
Damien Garros, OpsMill co-founder and CEO
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Why Trust Is Essential for Successful Automation Adoption

Learn why trust is critical to automation adoption, what can erode it, and how to design automation systems that foster trust from the start.
Damien Garros, OpsMill co-founder and CEO
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Why Your Network Naming Conventions Are Slowing Down Automation

Complex and outdated network naming conventions add friction to automation. Learn how to modernize and automate them.
Damien Garros, OpsMill co-founder and CEO
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