John CapobiancoLinkedIn · 2026-10-30
NetClaw returns to Packet Pushers
John reflects on NetClaw’s community, its contributors, and making useful network automation easier to try alongside the new Heavy Networking episode.
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Itential: engineers put FlowAI to work at Lumen
Itential shares the workshop results and recognizes the Lumen engineers and partners who explored agents, specifications, and governed execution together.
John CapobiancoLinkedIn · 2026-10-26
John’s Lumen reflection and the summit video memento
John shares the inherited-workflow question, the workshop outcomes, and thanks the Lumen team. The original post includes John Armstrong’s video memento.
Marc Montez: AI decides, workflows execute
Marc describes the partnership between agent reasoning and deterministic workflows, with approvals, repeatable execution, and visible evidence.
Greg Freeman: a summit built around the engineers
Greg’s recap of Lumen’s three-day summit: 200+ engineers, 45 breakout sessions, and hands-on demonstrations supported by partners including Itential.
John CapobiancoX · 2021-08-28
Tonight – Live on YouTube with Du’An “Lab Every Day” Lightfoot !
From the original article: It's not everyday you get to create a new Hash tag on twitter!This Saturday night at live 9pm join @John_Capobianco and myself for the 1st episode of #ConversationAndCodingHow to automate networks | Live Coding and Chat
John CapobiancoX · 2021-03-07
Creating Your Own Network Automation ChatBot with Discord, Ansible, and Genie/pyATS!
From the original article: As you may know I love to play with new toys. I especially love connecting new toys with my old toys. What you may not know is that I am also an avid World of Warcraft fan and player! In order to run what are known as “raids”, group content
John CapobiancoX · 2021-02-17
Automating the Cisco Identity Services Engine Monitoring and Troubleshooting Node (ISE MnT) REST API
From the original article: In my opinion Network Access Control (NAC) using a mix of 802.1x and MAC Address Bypass (MAB) with dynamic Access Control Lists (dACL) is not just an extremely important foundation of a modern, high secure, enterprise network. It is actuall
John CapobiancoX · 2021-02-09
Network Automation for Dummies, VMWare Special Edition
From the original article: I have a lot of new followers and people looking for materials on Network Automation @VMware published this amazing – and free and digitial – "For Dummies" guide https://t.co/PnSDGktZ6wTheir recommended list of books for
John CapobiancoX · 2020-11-17
Even Twitter disagrees
From the original article: Network automation is hard ⓘ 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴— John Capobianco (@John_Capobianco) November 17, 2020
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Giving an AI network engineer a 3D world
NetClaw connects Cisco Modeling Labs, pyATS and Unreal Engine through MCP to turn live network state into a navigable 3D topology.
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NetClaw meets Itential
Custom skills and MCP connect the agent to Itential workflows, with role-based access and an audit trail.
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A summer of agents and community
A look at the sessions, conversations and NetClaw deep dives brought to Cisco Live and AutoCon 5.
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