Hail NANOG!

It's me again. =) And I'm back with this year's "State of Network Automation Survey."

TL;DR:

Please complete the survey: https://forms.gle/iS7RYY4uJUZGndeQA

Once again, I did my best to make it as short as possible while collecting enough data to be useful.

MORE INFO:

This survey aims to get a rough outline of the state of network automation around the world, across all kinds of networks. This is the second year of this survey, and I plan to continue it into the future to provide trending and additional analysis over time.

* The first, 2023 survey was announced in this NANOG 87 lightning talk: https://youtu.be/p7rlhkmlDog?si=X3Jo6JaeKacgWoWC

* And I read out the results from that survey at NANOG 88 in Seattle: https://youtu.be/OFN2B0GtwOw?si=xbyby1xcFSP_qtP9

A couple notes:

1 - I tried to keep the survey as similar as possible to last year, while also incorporating as much feedback as possible. I hope I struck a good balance of allowing both long-term trending, and short-term improvements.

2 - Some folks voiced concerns over using a Google form and requiring an email address; after a bit of research, this still seems to be the best way to get the best results from the widest possible audience under my available time constraints. If you want to avoid the form, let me know and I will email you the questions, and you can email back your answers.

3 - Some folks voiced concerns over including financial questions; after speaking with a lot of our colleagues, I still believe that financial information is one key metric that will help us understand the adoption of automation - love it or hate it, money is a relevant metric. If you don't want to answer these, or cannot answer them, feel free to check "I don't know" and keep going.

ONE MORE THING:

If you are a member of another network engineering / network operations community; please cross post this survey so that we can get the largest and widest response possible!

Thanks,

~Chris