Systems, methods, and apparatuses for intelligent network automation

An apparatus for managing a network comprising:

• an assessment feature management circuit structured to define an assessment feature;
• a clustering circuit structured to identify, based at least in part on the assessment feature, a reference cluster comprising a plurality of member devices;
• a representative device circuit structured to select a representative device from the plurality of member devices;
• a golden engineering circuit structured to determine a golden configuration based at least in part on the representative device;
• a drift circuit structured to:
• compare a target configuration, of at least one member device of the plurality other than the representative device, to the golden configuration;
• and
• determine a drift value representative of an amount of change between the target configuration and the golden configuration;
• and
• a drift provisioning circuit structured to transmit the drift value.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when loaded into at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to:

• define an assessment feature;
• identify, based at least in part on the assessment feature, a reference cluster comprising a plurality of member devices;
• select a representative device from the plurality of member devices;
• determine a golden configuration based at least in part on the representative device;
• compare a target configuration, of at least one member device of the plurality other than the representative device, to the golden configuration;
• determine a drift value representative of an amount of change between the target configuration and the golden configuration;
• and
• transmit the drift value.