Network automation and integrations
Highly customizable functionality
To meet increasingly complex and fluid network requirements, modern DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (together known as DDI) solutions need flexibility and customization.
Standard, one-size-fits-all feature sets aren’t a good fit for the dynamic nature of networking needs.
The smart move is to use a DDI solution supported by a platform for developing and deploying modular automated workflows that:
BlueCat Gateway is a Python-based platform that brings together all the building blocks for automating DNS operations into a simple and intuitive development environment. Gateway uses an API with a set of Python classes for integrating third-party solutions with BlueCat Address Manager, DNS/DHCP Server, or Edge.
Gateway can be deployed on a BlueCat Integrity DNS/DHCP server appliance.
Automate cloud provisioning
Provision and deallocate cloud resources at the speed your users require—accelerating DevOps and minimizing shadow IT.
Integrate everywhere
Integrate Gateway with almost any application out-of-the-box— empowering sophisticated end-to-end automation.
Support self-service
Empower users with automated DNS workflows, accessed through a self-service portal, to make and request DNS changes (like device registration or server provisioning) automatically.
Zero-touch administration
Automate backend functions, like failover for BlueCat Address Manager, to increase resiliency while minimizing human intervention.
Adaptive Catalog
BlueCat’s Adaptive Catalog is a library of adaptive applications and plugins that integrate DDI data with a comprehensive (and growing) ecosystem of network, security, and cloud vendors.
Infrastructure deployment automation
To build and deploy apps without slowing business down, more DevOps and cloud teams are automating infrastructure deployment using Terraform.
But it can take weeks to stand up and tear down cloud infrastructure using manual DDI processes. So DevOps and cloud teams create workarounds and employ shadow IT.
The Terraform BlueCat Provider plugin automates DDI configuration management through code. With automated infrastructure deployment using Terraform and BlueCat’s plugin, network teams can safely and predictably monitor, create, change, and improve network infrastructure.
Automated network analysis
Your network grows bigger, faster, and more complex everyday. You need automated network analysis to understand how policy events impact network performance and security metrics.
The BlueCat Splunk integration seamlessly passes relevant DNS query data to Splunk (determined by a risk detection filter) for analysis and correlation with other network service data.
Your security team can gain full-context insight into your DNS attack surface in real time, all while controlling Splunk data volume costs.
Automated provisioning
To keep from drowning in an avalanche of routine IT tasks, network teams need the tools to vet, approve, and fulfill self-service requests—for everything from device registration to automated cloud deployment.
BlueCat provides a range of adaptive plugins to help network teams quickly and automatically validate the influx of self-service tickets from IT service management tools like ServiceNow, OpenStack, and vRO.
Additional features
End-to-end automation
Seamlessly integrate your DNS with all your critical network applications to automatically meet continually changing DNS and IP requirements.
Self-service
Automate IT service requests with built-in web forms for device registration, onboarding, configuration, permissions management, or anything else you can imagine.
Workflow management
Simplify change and workflow management by refining automated processes in an intuitive testing environment to get them production-ready before pushing live.
Out-of-the-box plugins
Use pre-made workflows created by BlueCat to automate standard DDI management processes, deploy self-service, and gather DDI data.
Community offerings
Join our community of customer developers and experiment with the open-source, community-developed Python scripts available through the BlueCat Labs GitHub repository.
DIY customization
Build on the existing scripts and code snippets used by BlueCat admins to accelerate your own automation projects.
Visit the BlueCat Labs repository on GitHub
BlueCat Labs is our open-source, community-powered GitHub repository for automation workflows, community-built code, and out-of-the-box adaptive plugins for BlueCat products.
You’ll find a range of tools to make your network more efficient, eliminate errors and downtime, and integrate DNS into the network management solutions you use every day.
Discover how other network admins eliminate manual work and risk while helping cloud and DevOps teams accelerate.
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