Re: 2025 State of Network Automation Survey - Requesting Your Participation

[Tom Beecher via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

Chris-

 The same general trends have held true for 2 decades by now.

- Current tooling usually gets written with current languages and
frameworks.
- Older tooling stays around until it's required to be replaced.
- Everyone automates some things , nobody automates everything.

If I am a network operator thinking of automating more of my
infrastructure, I want to know more about what ideas work, what ones don't,
and WHY they worked or didn't, so I can make informed choices about doing
what might work for me. Knowing what % of the limited respondents use
Golang doesn't help me decide it Golang is something I should consider for
my use cases.

Respectfully, it feels like these surveys are just vehicles for market
research and an opportunity to get on stage at NANOG and other events.

( And note for the PC members on the list : It seems quite odd to accept a
presentation to present survey results when the survey itself is still
ongoing. How did you review the survey results to decide if they were
meaningful and valuable for the community if those results aren't even in
yet? )


On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM Chris Grundemann via NANOG <
nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:

> Tl;dr: If you have enable on a production network, we need YOU to respond
> (no automation experience required):
> https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/StateOfNetworkAutomation_2025
>
>
> The 2025 State of Network Automation Survey closes in two short weeks!
> *Deadline
> to respond is noon MDT (GMT-0600) on Monday, 6 September.*
>
> This survey is for anyone who operates a network; meaning you have edit
> ('enable') access to switches, routers, firewalls, or optical transport
> equipment on a production network, or you lead a team that does.
>
> All experience levels welcome! Even if you have zero automation experience,
> your response is valuable. Those with more advanced automation will see
> additional questions.
>
> All responses are anonymous, and only aggregate data will be published by
> the Network Automation Forum.
>
> If you already took this year's survey - please consider sharing the survey
> link with others to help ensure the widest possible reach.
>
> Thanks!
> ~Chris
>
>
> PS - We have had an amazing response, with almost 400 respondents (382 as
> of right now); after you complete the survey you will instantly see how all
> those others responded. And the more responses we get, the more useful and
> powerful the final results will be for all of us.
>
> PPS - The NANOG PC has scheduled the survey results readout for NANOG 95 on
> Tuesday after lunch: https://nanog.org/events/nanog-95/agenda/
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM Chris Grundemann <cgrundemann () gmail com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hey all! It's that time of year again... Survey time.
> >
> > The 2025 State of Network Automation Survey is open!!!
> >
> > No automation experience required - please share with everyone who has
> > edit access on a production network, regardless of how automated that
> > network might be.
> >
> > https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/StateOfNetworkAutomation_2025
> >
> > For consistency, and ability to track trends, most of the questions are
> > word-for-word repeats from prior years surveys. This year I deleted a few
> > questions that don't seem relevant anymore, and I made a few questions
> > optional, rather than required, in hopes of MANY more responses -- I also
> > built in some logic, so that *folks who have ZERO network automation
> > experience / deployment can still answer the survey easily*, in hopes of
> > more accurate data collection.
> >
> > There are also some new questions, all suggested by the Network
> Automation
> > Forum community.
> >
> > Finally, you will notice that we (now with NAF backing) moved off of the
> > free Google form to a much sleeker SurveyMonkey survey. w00t
> >
> > Again - we invite anyone and everyone with enable on a production network
> > to complete the survey, and we hope that everyone here will share the
> > survey in other foraa as well - mailing lists, newsletters, social media,
> > discord, slack, reddit, etc, etc.
> >
> > Survey results have been submitted as a talk for NANOG 95 in October. And
> > will be available publically one way or another before the end of the
> year.
> > Thanks!
> > ~Chris
>
> --
> @ChrisGrundemann
> http://chrisgrundemann.com
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