Most of the time we don't actually operate switches of our own, and our setup is simple enough where we don't do a ton of automation around the config where we

Most of the time we don't actually operate switches of our own, and our setup is simple enough where we don't do a ton of automation around the config where we do. What we do automate end-to-end is our BGP: our prefixes are actually announced from servers (using exabgp), not routers -- and our config there is managed by ansible, plus some real-time automation around community strings.