Azure DevOps is a set of developer services to support teams in planning work, collaborating on development then building and deploying those applications or tools the teams is developing. It allows development shop to get a single pane of glass in order to coordinate all it’s development work flow.

Cumulus Linux is a flexible network operating system for bare metal switches. It is based on Linux and gives you all the automation and orchestration capabilities at your disposal on Linux systems.

SSH authentication forwarding allows you to use private key on your local machine to connect to other machines. For example if the only way you are allowed to access Linux/Unix servers in your environment is through a bastion host follow the steps below.