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Difference between SDN and Network Automation

What is the difference between Software-Defined Networking and Network Automation? If you are managing your routers and switches using tools like Puppet or Ansible, or by using bash scripts or python ...
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How does a new switch know how to reach the controller in an SDN?

Let's say we have an existing SDN network composed of several switches and a controller. Now say we connected a new switch to the network. Now how would the new switch know how to reach the controller?...
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What exactly is "network automation"?

When we say network automation, what "automation" are we talking about? What is that being automated? I've heard that in network automation we do not have to configure each individual ...
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