NETWORK CI/CD & END TO END TESTING

Deploy network changes quickly and safely

The challenge

Even small network changes can have massive impacts. When there’s no way to test changes ahead of production, every update carries risk.

Infrastructure becomes a bottleneck as engineers struggle to keep pace with business demands without blowing up the network.
Production becomes the testing ground because there’s no way to validate changes end-to-end before deployment.
Massive amounts of time are wasted when systems regenerate every config for every device, whether they were changed or not.
Outages occur when bad data and broken integrations create invalid configurations.

The solution

Infrahub’s native CI/CD pipeline gives you end-to-end testing capabilities for every network change before it reaches production. By validating schema, data, templates, and configurations together in one platform, you eliminate surprises and turn network changes into predictable, low-risk deployments.

Infrahub understands exactly what changed and only tests what’s impacted, eliminating the waste of regenerating and validating thousands of unrelated devices. Git-style branching enables teams to work in parallel, peer review changes, and integrate when ready, removing the infrastructure bottleneck while maintaining control and auditability.

The result is faster deployments, fewer outages, and infrastructure that scales with your business. Engineers can finally keep pace with business demands without sacrificing safety.

BRANCHING

Work safely in isolation

Create independent branches to develop and test network changes without impacting production. Multiple teams can work in parallel, each in their own isolated environment. When your changes are tested and reviewed, merge them back. Infrahub handles the integration while preserving a complete history of every decision.

PROPOSED CHANGES

Track changes from draft to deployment

Proposed Changes provide a pull request-style workflow for infrastructure, giving teams a central location to collaborate, discuss, and track the progress of network changes from initial draft through final deployment. You’ll always know exactly what’s changing with diffs, comments, discussions, and CI status in a unified view.

CHECKS & VALIDATION

Enforce rules automatically

Define custom checks that auto-validate your data meets business and technical requirements. Infrahub validates data types, enforces mandatory fields and relationships, and runs user-defined rules that carry your design intent forward into every implementation.

PEER REVIEW

Enable team collaboration

Built-in peer review workflows put human oversight at the center of every change. Colleagues can review, comment, and approve changes before they’re merged to production, ensuring that business context and operational knowledge complement automated validation.

TESTING

Validate changes before production

Integrate testing into your CI pipeline to validate network changes before they reach production. Add validation steps that check configuration syntax, verify operational state, or connect to simulation tools that mirror your production environment. Built-in support for unit testing and integration testing ensure problems are caught early, not during deployment.

TRANSFORMATIONS

Turn data into deployable artifacts

Generate device configurations, documentation, or any structured output using Python or Jinja2 templates. Infrahub transforms your data into the specific formats your tools and devices need, whether that’s CLI commands, XML, JSON, or YAML. Only changed data triggers new artifact generation, making the process efficient and scalable even in large environments.

VERSIONING

Track everything

Version schema, data, and transformations together so you always know exactly what changed, when, and by whom. Unlike fragmented systems where these pieces live in different tools, Infrahub versions them as a unified system. See the full history of any change, compare versions, and maintain a complete audit trail for compliance and troubleshooting.

IMMUTABILITY

Preserve everything

Nothing is ever lost or overwritten in Infrahub. Every version of your schema, data, and configurations remains accessible, creating an unchangeable audit trail for compliance and forensics. When problems occur, roll back to any previous state with confidence. When auditors ask questions, show them exactly what existed at any point in time.