Autonomicon Glossary

A glossary of terms used by and within NAF. If you'd like to contribute to, or see revisions to some of these terms, discussion occurs in Network Automation Forum Slack in channel #doc-autonomicon.

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Automation

Software or other tooling designed to complete a task with no human intervention

Idempotent

A process or task that can be run multiple times and always reach the desired outcome

Orchestration

Software or other tooling designed to complete a series of tasks with no human intervention in a workflow based on a defined set of inputs

Workflow

A series of ordered tasks, with potentially conditional execution, designed to complete a work process with minimal or no human intervention