Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Sandeep Koushik Sheshadri

Albert Gordon Greenberg

Parveen Kumar Patel

David A Maltz

Lihua Yuan

Thomas Keane

Parvez Anandam

Nisheeth Srivastava

Pradeep Ayyappan Nair

Ramnath Prasad

Shikhar Suri

Sharda Murthi

Varun Venkatesh

Network buildout of cloud computing environments subject to different data control policies is performed in a manner that ensures compliance with the data control policies. A buildout service is located in a remote cloud computing environment separate from the cloud computing environments at which buildout is being performed. The buildout service implements workflows to manage different aspects of network buildout in the cloud computing environments. The buildout service does not have access to restricted data in the cloud computing environments, including access control data, such that the buildout service cannot directly interact with network devices. The buildout service issues requests for device configuration to hardware proxies in the cloud computing environments. In response to the requests, the hardware proxies obtain access control data to access and configure the network devices.

Network buildout for cloud computing environments with data control policies

Various embodiments of methods and systems for network infrastructure configuration based on network device configuration templates are provided. A network device configuration template is received where the network device configuration template corresponds to network device configuration data based on template elements. Template elements include variable placeholders, versions, Stock Keeping Units (SKUs), firmware, and target devices identified in the network device configuration template. Values for the template elements are referenced from a dataset storage component. The network device configuration data are classified into different classification units. The network device configuration data are merged with the network device configuration template that programmatically defines configuration of network devices. A network device configuration instance is generated based on evaluating the template elements and replacing template elements with values from the dataset storage. The network device can be associated with a configuration scope, where the configuration scope indicates intended configuration features of the network devices.

Network device configuration framework

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