THE OPSMILL BLOG

Business strategy & technical deep dives for powering infrastructure automation

Technical

How to Automatically Run Reachability Checks on Every Network Change

You’d never make a change to your network without running it through ample checks first: Customer traffic must never bypass the inspection layer. EU data must stay in the EU. The audit data store must never be reachable from the guest network. But are you really checking everything? Even complex Python scripts that you continuously […]

Iddo Cohen

Jul 3, 2026

Product release

Introducing Graph Traversal in Infrahub

Infrastructure teams are increasingly using agents to help plan changes, answer dependency questions, and keep infrastructure aligned with intent. But that only works if the underlying data is connected, trustworthy, and rich enough for both engineers and agents to reason about relationships. Infrahub has always stored your data in a graph, where the relationships between […]

Alex Gittings

Jul 2, 2026

OpsMill news

OpsMill is the New Steward of Nornir

I’m thrilled to share that OpsMill is becoming the steward of the Nornir project. Over the last eight years, Nornir has become foundational for a lot of infrastructure teams. It gave people a Python-native way to orchestrate infrastructure operations and build automation workflows without introducing a whole new way of working. It earned that place. […]

Damien Garros

Jun 29, 2026

Product release

Infrahub 1.10: Graph Traversal, Smarter Automation, and Agent-Ready Workflows

Running a network means knowing how everything connects, managing who can change it, and keeping automation reliable as your environment grows. Infrahub 1.10 introduces new ways to explore network dependencies, simplify identity and access, make automation more predictable, and bring agents into how you build with and operate on Infrahub data. Understand network dependencies Modern […]

Yvonne Jouffrault

Jun 24, 2026

Automation strategy

Struggling With Network Automation? Here’s Your Roadmap

In theory, AIOps sounds great. Tell an agent what to do, and boom your network builds and fixes itself. But we’re nowhere near that yet. Unless they’re assigned a super narrow task, agents hallucinate, they break. At the same time, the pressure to use AI isn’t letting up. So people keep building “assistants” no one […]

Damien Garros

Jun 23, 2026

Business lens

6 Signs Your Network Data Model Isn’t AI Agent-Ready

You all know I don’t have the infrastructure and network automation chops that you have. In my world (Sales, GTM, and Operations) I’m managing pipelines of a different kind. But even I can see your AI agent problem. Over the past six months, I’ve sat in enough rooms with enough technical teams to know that […]

Karen Gallantry

Jun 22, 2026

Technical

One Docs Site, Many Repos: How OpsMill Builds Infrahub’s Documentation on Docusaurus

Keeping docs up to date is usually a game of hot potato. Every team thinks it’s another team’s job to maintain them, and, eventually, they get so stale nobody wants to touch them. At OpsMill, docs aren’t owned by one team because they’re not stored in a single codebase. There’s the core Infrahub project, the […]

Pete Crocker

Jun 17, 2026

Automation strategy

Automation-first, not asset-first

Across the industry, infrastructure tools are leaning hard into asset inventory, pulling procurement, purchase orders, shipments, and RMAs into their platform. We’re going the other way, on purpose. Infrahub is the automation-first source of truth for your infrastructure. It has a fundamentally different job than tracking what you bought, when a warranty expires, which cost […]

Pete Crocker

Jun 15, 2026

Business lens

Why bolt on when you can build in?

Finally, the rest of the industry is building the same things we were building from day one. In the span of a few weeks this spring, multiple long-established network and infrastructure platforms shipped releases with branching, pull-request-style governance, and procurement workflows tied directly to an infrastructure model, concepts that feel quite familiar to us at […]

Karen Gallantry

Jun 9, 2026

Automation strategy

Building an Agentic Intent Data Foundation for with Infrahub

Network and infrastructure teams are under pressure to move toward agentic automation. The long-term goal is ambitious: AI agents that can handle provisioning, service fulfillment, VLAN allocation, and drift remediation in natural language, without a human in the loop for every step. In the short term, most organizations are still developing trust in agents, so […]

Damien Garros

May 29, 2026

Using Infrahub

Infrahub Skills Livestream Recap

On May 11, Solution Architects Benoit Kohler and Phillip Simonds held a livestream to walk through Infrahub Skills, an open-source AI skills package covering the full Infrahub development lifecycle. In this livestream, Ben and Phillip provided an overview and demonstration of Infrahub Skills. Watch the livestream here, and access the full transcript below. Introductions Hi […]

Jennifer Tribe

May 12, 2026

OpsMill news

OpsMill Raises $14 Million in Series A to Fund Product Development & Growth

I’m very pleased to share that OpsMill has raised $14 million in a Series A funding round led by IRIS, with participation from Benhamou Global Ventures and existing investors Serena and Partech. This investment validates the urgent need for a new approach to managing infrastructure intent at scale. In the months ahead, it will fuel […]

Damien Garros

May 7, 2026