Govern
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Govern¶
This track is for a team lead or architect who already has automation and has to make it safe. The scripts exist and they mostly work. The question now is whether you'd let them run against production unattended, and whether you could prove to an auditor that you should.
What's here¶
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Production-Grade Principles¶
Device identity, pre-flight checks, blast radius, drift, idempotency, rollback, audit, human-in-the-loop, and knowing when not to automate. Plus a charter, control matrix and 30/60/90-day roadmap for running it as a programme.
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Automation Standards¶
A coded control catalogue you can cite, the method for assessing yourself against it, and the Python engineering bar.
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Reference Architectures¶
Designs with the reasoning behind every boundary, starting with Trusted Automation Execution: Zero Trust applied to the automation that holds your most privileged credentials.
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Governed AI for Network Operations¶
How to give an AI agent access to the network without giving it a shell: risk classification, tool design, contracts, and a review checklist.
If you want these controls assessed or implemented in your own estate rather than read about, see See it done.
Part of the Nautomation Prime Academy.
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